The Chicago press reported the appearance in court in the city of a Miss Alice Clementine. Two nights before, she had attended the opera at McVicker's Opera House dressed as a gentleman and accompanied by two young ladies. Noticed as suspicious during the performance, she was questioned and her gender discovered. She was fined $25 and ordered to pay costs for what the newspapers called her "offensive demonstration." (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"The City," Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1863, 1863, p. 4.