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Show only was able to prevent them putting the handcuffs on her, but, taking the officer and his posse one by one, flung them out of the house and closed and locked the door. Baxter, in particular, is accounted a man of unusual Btrength, and is of large build, but he says his muscles were as a child's when compared with those of the black Amazon. The woman, whose name is Caroline Jenkins, is about 30 years old, and is the mother of seven children. SSlie has been seen to pick up a barrel of flour and carry it a distance ef several yards without appearing to overtax herself, and when tested was found to be able to break with ease a new grass rope an inch in diameter. Since her exploit with the police it is said that a party of gentlemen propose traveling with her, if she will go, and give exhil A ons of her strength, which is to bo ascribed to no electrical or magnetic mag-netic process, but to her muscular development de-velopment alone. St. Louis Glole-Dein-ocrr.t, A Illark Fetualo Saitiinn, Freedman's Town, a suburb of Houston, Hous-ton, Tex., boasts of a female Samson, who has tepeatedly proven herself a match for any three men that havepittM their united "strength, and who a few nights ago successfully routed Officer John Baxter and three of his assistants, all men of fine physique. The woman is a negress, as black as night and of a stature slightly above average, but magnificently mag-nificently built and extraordinarily active. ac-tive. Her grip was such that she was able to break two of the bones of the hand of the woman with whom she had a fracas recently, and it was on .the police po-lice attempting to arrest her that she not |