The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-02-03
Lived Al % " Mystery of Murray Hall Married %' so%d sPo

undertaken who discovered the Scotch
womans sex
What this Scotch woman actually ac-
ecmplished suggests many psychological
questions. who BY taking thought can
add 2 cubit to his starure?' While she
did not increase her height. she seemed
TO have changed her original feminine
nature and in some ways her physical
contour
Did she by constant thought and desire.
her mind ever dwelling on the masculine
did she actually think the flesh IN
her body2 Her chest was a fat as q
mans
Once when arrested and searched in
a police station, in case growing out
Of an election quarrel no clews to her
sex were discovered As secret keeper
ne and she had no rival on earth
After her death an overlooked indica-
ton Of her sex was recalled in this
rough way When a politician was told
Of the discovery he exclaimed. '.You
don't mean it. Well might have
known it-she was 90 vindictive" And
he added TO the idea above touched on.
SAYING
Here is a problem for doctors ana
scientists. saying nothing Of those won
derful mind readers and professors Of
telepathy and invisible means generally.
both Of earth and heaven. as to how far
this desire TO do all that men do and
this passion 70 deceive the world and
fool politicians and daily business asso-
ciates. political chums. friends enemies
and everybody, would change organism
Of woman, change her physical make
up. each day making her more and more
Ike a man.
Yet she was a perfect woman physi-
cally and had she married man she
would have borne children. This IS de-
clared by the physicians"
Again and again it may De asked. IS
this one Of the phases Of evolution
wherein the mind changes the very ar
atomy and characteristics OF man and
woman2
TNCREDULITY IN TAAfMANY
When the news were first conveyed to
her daily associates and nearby neigh
bors. even TO the other tenants in the
house. they said: "You are crazy. We
have known Han for twenty-five OF
thirty years. He is no more a woman
than you are" The janitress to whom
Hall paid the rent every month. said she
had seen him day after day. When as
sured Of Hairs sex she still exclaimed:
II don't believe f. But if it is what
you say, I shall move out Of the house,
for a person who can carry on such a
deception through life. a person whom
have known for thirty-fve years. viii
reappear to me on the stairs some night.
even il dead I shall not stay in the
house a minute if I ind this to be true"
Here are some Of the curious points
about this strange woman
She was twice married-drst in Cali
fornia, and is supposed to have left
child there, forty or fifty years ago.
Her last marriage with young woman
from Maine was unbroken for twenty
eight years.
She had small feet and swore Ike
cowboy.
She chewed and smoked tobacco. but
never at funerals.
She danced like a man and sang music
han songs.
She was a great fighter.
She never wore whiskers or skates.
She could throw a stone and whistle
No man could have done more.
SOME FACTS ABOUT HALL.
She had a horror of rats and mice and
wore women's shoes.
She was an able politician, and Al et-
fective worker at the polls
She never drank at bar, which dis
tinsuished her from other politicians.
She practiced all the habits ana Gus
toms Of men, including lying.
She always had her pockets fun Of
cigars and treated frequently.
She walked On tiptoe and had little
squeaky voice, about as loud as Yon-
kers kiss.
She went TO chowder parties and was
the noisest and most profane Of the
politicians.
When walking she always had her
hands turned backward and her arms
crooked ike a C0ckney swell
She never joined the Free NIasons.
She was about four feet high and she
weighed between one hundred and hva
and one hundred and ten pounds She
owned property in Winchester county.
about five lots worth about 5000 and
$1,000
She was a professional b0ndsman. and
would give anywhere from $50 90 to $50
900 bail She did not hesitate to go to
court and testify fer q client He had
only TO tell her what TO say.
she was the best vote catcher III the
district according to Barney Martin
She was never a member Of the Tr1-
quois club. but they were glad TO have
her in Tammanv because Of her inde-
cessful work.
For tweaty years she was q member os
The Tammaay general COMMITTEES.
she went on terrible sprees. bur even
u her deepest fntoxicati7n she never re-
veaiei her sex. She enacted every char
acterisric OF a man
she was pasionately fond q love stor-
ss IF the yellow cover sort
she was fond az cats and straight
whisky
Fer twenty-five years she voted rszu-
ar-y. was enrolled as q Democrat and 70
7n tae enrolment books ~ the Demo
cratic orEaaizatien and voted as recently
she dled If cancer IN the breast TIE
proportion per thousand ~ men wb7 sia
e cancer .n he breast as couTarel vira
ose who die e cancer ,n t5e throa-.
s said 90 he only ore tn a Thousand ana
ned-ea records say Il is even less than
aan mat
TIE most Interesting feature 81 herIs,
thar for dftF years wtrru- Sd sxoe1-
- ar as her dliir associates were