The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-05-23
WOMEN IN MEMS CLOTHES.
Careers Of Feminine Advocates OF Mas
culine Attire.

The case Of Murray Hall. the wom-
an who so long deceived New York
in regard to her sex. is by no means
without parallel. About a year ago
Ellis Glenn" who had fed from
debts and an engagement to Ella Duke
of Litchfeld. ILL.,. confessed when ar
rested to being woman. and yet she
had lived for some time in small
town, doing mans work and awaken
ing no suspicion whatever. There are
many tales of women who served as
soldiers, and one of these. thoroughly
authenticated, was reported only
short time ago from the Philippines.
One Maggie Curley served before the
mast; Minnie Briggs. a traDeZe per-
former, worked as an expert telegraph
linesman, and lotto Schaffer.' Kan
sas hermit and soldier. turned out to
be woman. though given. nevcrthe-
less, a military funeral. History fur
nishes numberless examples from an
cient times to the more modern in
stances noted by Krafft-Ebing.
Perhaps the most famous case of
this kind is that of the Countess
Sarolta Way, 10 years ago. The child
of an Austrian colonel. with a large
family of daughters only. she was
reared as boy and was we'll known
man about town." in Pesth. drinking
and smoking, and even appearing in
military uniform. When her family
finally tired of the farce she refused
to give it up. and was not discovered
until she married the daughter of a
schoolmaster and sCuandered all her
wife's money. Chevalie- DEon, when
Louis XIV. wanted a woman to act as
secret agent on a Russian mission. as
sumed the role and broke dozen
hearts in Moscow. The sex OF one
Englishman, figure at court, was dis
covered only by death. while Queen
Christina of Sweden. after resigning
her crown at %. spent half her time
in European cities dressed in mans
attire.
The Venetian Tonina Marinello
fought through the campaigns of Carl
baldi, passing as the brother of her
husband being decorated for bravery.
Mary East kept 4 saloon with wom-
an called her wife. Louis Herman. a
we'll known courier and good lin
guist, has for 42 years been affecting
mems clothes. Then there is DR.. Mary
Walker and DR.. James Barry, the
English army surgeon. who fought a
duel at the Cape with one who dared
call her p woman. Nora Smith Of
Ohio, hid her sex for IL years. and
Frank Blunt" managed q lumber
camp, was married and divorced be-
fore detected. Mrs. Lindsey went as
soldier through our civil war;
Louise Watson, child of rich parents
braved London as a boy. and Mary
Talbot was a cabin boy, broke one
woman's heart and was killed in a
brawl with London police: Bessie
Finegold married a New York girl,
Catherine Coombs was an English
miner and Mrs. Loganani also one in
Hazleton.
Mrs. Julia Forest took her injured
husbands place also in the Pennsyl-
vania mines. and for 20 years Mrs.
Westover was the town barber OF
Marlboro. Ct. "Tony Leesa" was
loved by every girl in a Yonkers fac
tory until she herself fell in love and
married a man. Army muster rolls
are, however. after all. the place to
look for these cases. Private Jorgen-
son served for 20 years in the Victoria
Rifles. and in Fox's "Regimental
Losses" we note examples 7as~ fo1io~s:
Charles D. Fuller -46th Pennsylvania,
detected and discharged; Sergeant
Frank Mayne. -126th Pennsylvania. de.
serted, and subsequently killed in bat
tie in another regiment; Franklin
Thompson, I'd Michigan. detected: L.
NJ. Blaylock, 26th North Carolina. de-
tected. Most of these women served,
before being discharged. with unusual
bravery, and their cases almost parall-
ell that of Christian Cavanagh. the
English woman. who enlisted with her
impressed husband in Holland. was
wounded at Mamillies and then re-
NAMED with the regiment as cook
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