Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-10-05
WOMAN POSED AS MAN
Boston Girl In Male Attire Dies
at Sea.
LIVED TEN YEARS IN ITALY

Charles winsIOw Hall, Crack Rifle
Shot, Travelling with an italian
Wife, Was Really Caroline w. Hall.
Dissipation Brought on Fatal HI
ness.
Murray Hall, the woman who died
last year after burying a wife, says the
New York Sun, had something Of an
imitator among the cabin passengers
of the Italian steamship Citta di Tori
no of the Veloce line, which arrived on
Sunday from Mediterranean and Azores
ports. This was q delicate, blue eyed,
beardless person, who. according to the
ships manifest, was Charles Winsiow
Hail." With him was a red checked,
olive skinned Italian woman about "a
years old. She has big. lustrous eyes
and cannot speak enough English to
make herself understood by an Ameri-
can. She was registered as Mrs. Gu
seppina Hall and said she was the wife
OF Charles WinsiOw Hall. Mr.. Hall
and his wife were constantly with each
other on the voyage. They boarded the
ship at Genoa on Sept. 8. Mr.. Hall ap-
peared to be over 80 years old.
Mr.. Hall evidently was an American,
speaking Italian with a decided trace
of Yankee accent. He was ''one of the
boys" frequenting the smoking room
as much as the gamest sport aboard
ship and drinking more Italian wine
and cognac than any other passenger.
He told his fellow voyagers that he was
a crack rife shot and a painter. 1t
was soon observed that he appeared to
be a trifie unbalanced mentally. He
was an able seaman, and when others
sought the seclusiOn of their cabins in
stormy weather he reported for meals.
The woman who said she was his
wife put him to bed every night until
the ship was within six days of Sandy
Hook. Then he was unable TO leave
his berth. and the ships surgeons, Drs.
Giulio Angrisani and Nicola Ram,
were asked to look after him. DR..
Angrisani talked with the patient, sus-
pected that Mr.. Hail. was n woman
and verified his suspicion.
Then the patient owned that she was
Miss Caroline w. Hall of Boston. She
is said to be the daughter of 4 retired
United States army officer. Miss Hall
begged the doctor not TO let any of the
cabin passengers know that she was
not man.
Miss Hall never left her berth again
alive. She failed gradually as the ship
ran into colder ATTITUDES. While the
Citta di Torino was in quarantine 1T
2:33 o'clock the other morning Miss
Hall succumbed TO consumption. Her
death was possibly FASTENED by the
inordinate use of stimulants, which she
had hoped would keep her alive until
she reached the home of her old father
in Boston.
The woman who posed as Miss Halls
"wife' is Miss Giuseppina Boriani of
Milan. She speaks only n few words
Of English. She told the italian doc
tors that she had met Miss Hall in Mil
an ten years ago and that they had be-
come fast friends. Miss Hall held the
opinion that petticoats were in the way
of an ambitious woman who wanted
to see the world, and she abandoned
them for trousers.
She did many of the things that men
do, including tipping and cigar smok-
ing.
According to Miss Boriani. Miss Hall
taken part In several important match
IS in Italy and America. She was bet
ter known in Italy than elsewhere as
crack shot. She had often declared
that she could not get a chance to do
things unless she appeared in the dress .
of q man.
She followed the hounds astride a
hunter and took part in many kinds Of
mems games. 1t is said that she threw
a ball and also drank one with mascu-
line precision. She spent much time in
Italy. Her mother, who died last year,
aften travelled with her and humored
her within. She had not seen her IA
Their, who is said to be wealthy, for
nine years.
The italian doctors OF the Citta di To-
rino said that they inferred from Miss
Boriani's talk that Miss Hall had ''gone
a little daft" She was an only daugh-
ter and long had been regarded by her
kinsfolk as eccentric.
1t is a coincidence that there is in
Boston a Charles Winslow Hall, law
yer, author and Journalist. who is fifty
eight years old, a graduate of the Har-
ward Law school. who married twice,
his first wife having died, who was at
different times the editor of several
New England papers and has written
several books of adventure and on mil
itary subjects. He served a year in the
civil war.
Hawk and Partridge.