Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-10-05
Tb4 story of u Woman's Career.
6 English naner SAWS :

Y M English paper says:
IAN incident is just now being discussed in
military circles, so extraordinary that, were
not its truth youched for by official authority,
the narration would be certainly deemed alb
sohtely incredible. Our officers quartered at
the Cape, some fifteen or twenty years ago,
may remember certain DR.. Barry, attached
to the medical staff there and enjoying a rep
utation for considerable skill in his profession,
especially for frmness, decision, and rapidity
in difficult operations. This gentleman had
entered the army in ISl3 had passed. of
course, through the grades of assistant sur
geon and surgeon in various regiments, and
had served as such in various quarters of the
globe. His professional requirements had
procured for him his promotion to the staff
at the Cape lie was clever and agreeable,
save for the drawback of most quarrclsome
temper, and an inordinate addiction to argu-
ment which perpctually brought the former
popularity into play. He was excessively
plain of feeble proportions, and labored under
the mpcrfection of ludricolsy squeaking
voice Any natural "chaliiing" with regard
to these, however, aroused his ire but was at
length discontinued on his "calling out !" a
persevering offender and shooting him thro'
the lungs.
About 1910 he became promoted to be
medical inspector, and was transferred to
Malta. There he was equally distinguished
by his skill, and by his pugnacious propensi-
ties, the latter becoming so inconveniently
developed upon the slightest difference of
opinion with him, that at last no notice was
allowed to be taken of his fits of temper. He
proceeded from Malta to Corfu, where he was
quartered for many years, still conspicuous
| for his pecularities. When our Government
ceded the Ioni IN Island to Greece and our
troops, of course quilted the Territory, DR..
Barry elected to leave the army and take up
his residence for the rest of his days at Corfu
He there died about month ago, and upon
his death was discovered to be woman !
Very probably this discovery was elected du
ring the natural preparations for interment,
but there seems to be an idea prevalent that
either verbally during his last illness or by
some writing, pcrused Immediately after his
(for we must still use the masculine death,
he had begged to be buried without post
mortem examination of any sort
This, most likely, only aroused the curiosity
of the two nurses who attended him, for it was
to them, it appears, that the disclosure is
owing. Under the circumstances, the fact
was deemed so important that medical testi-
mony was called in to report upon and record
ITS truth. BY this investigation not only was
the assertion placed beyond doubt, but it
wasNequally beyond doubt brought to light
that Me individual had some time or another
been aNmother This Is all that is as yet
known d this extraordinary story. The mo-
tves thatNccasioned and the time when COM
menccd this singular deception are both
shrouded in Mystery. But thus it stands an
indubitable fa6t that a woman was for forty
years an officcN in the British SERVICE had
fought one duel, AQd had sought many more,
had pursued legitimate medical education,
had received a reguN piploma, and had ac-
quired almost a celebrity for skill as surgi-
cal operator \