Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-12
STORY OF A WOr1AN
WHO LIVES AS A MAN,

Special Correspondence.
London, Sept l.--lt Is doubted here II
any woman masquerading as "a man
ever had a more extraordinary career
than Catherine Coome She 10 is whose
arrest the other day brought out the
fact that for the last 90 years she has
worn mans clothing, done mans work
and everywhere passed as a man. She
Is devoted TO her pipe, TOO, IN which she
smokes the strongest Kind of tobacco.
Strangest OF ALL however Catherine
COome has been twice married as u
member NJ the sterner SEX Three
times IN all has she entered into the
bonds Of Wcdock, but ON the first oCca.
sion, az u maid of 10. she welded q
mag That marriage turned out uu-
happily and she resolved never To nee
peat the experiment The second time
I'm the role Of a man she married u
woman and was rewarded with four
years Of domestic bliss The third
time she again married q woman ana
for % years this strange but happy ma
trlmonial partnership was maintained
until the death Of her wife made her
once moro should any one say a
widow or WldOWcr2' Only once be-
fore her recent arrest, she dccares.WuS
her sex detected She has been q cap
taiug clerk and IN that capacity and
subsequently as "a painter and decora-
tor ON the r. and -, companys steam
crs has sailed over many seas ana seen
much OF the world ON shore she muin-
taIned herself and the partners of
her Joys and SORROWS for many years as
a house painter. And finally as IT.
ting climax to her career she has cli-
cited from a magistrate the statement
that there Is mo- law IN England under
which "a woman can Dc restricted from
DOMINIC masculine attire
She comes of a good family Her IA
Their was q man Of some means ana a
wen known member of the Somerset
and Devon Hunt She was educated at
young ladies' seminary iu Chelteu-
ham and before she was 10 she married
her first cousin. puCiyal COOme. lie
was 2l years older than herself ana
according to her description of him. a
thorough going scamp. He cruelty III
used her Kept her under lock and Key
and even cut off her hair and sold IT,
She vowed after that she would never
Let Il grow long again, nor dld she,
Several times she ran away from him
but he always caught her ana MADE
her suffer for ~
IT was after one Of these expert
ences that she hit upon The idea of
Disgusting herself IN male attire that
she might the better hide from him
She WAS rs then and the change of
costume made her look Ike a bright
and handsome lad. II was before the
DAYS of pursers and she readily ODD
talned "a position as % captains clerk, q
billet which ensured her safety IRON
her husbands pursuit For three ana
half years she held this position ON tho
same ship and no one suspected her 49,
cret. The only embarrassment sh'
suffered. she says, was from the dtten
| tion of feminine passengers who per
sisted I'm falling ln love with her one
| of them. an actress, and a famous one
| In her time actually, she declares, be-
| sought her on Blended knee to becom'
her husband. MY legs were thel
| scarcely used to trousers she says
| "and | was so worried and ashamed
that | told her / was only girl He
love then changed 10 friendship anI
my staunch friend she remained until
she died.
on her last voyage ON the ship, ac
cordlng to her story q girl fell so des
perately IN love with her that Whel
port was reached she refused TO q
home. By this time Catherine hat
grown accustomed 90 her man-role AM
such trl0lng matter as the love OF
maid no longer upset her She got ri'
Of the girl 10y sending "a telegram to he
father. a country rector asking him Z
take his too susceptible daughter home
After leaving the sea, still disguise
J as a man. She apprentced heTself 70