Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-10-18
WOMAN LIVES AS A MAN FOR S5
 YEARS.
(From Fridays Daily)

DrOugn, WouldH NhO 1Ol 1"Nh'y years has lived in male attire, known and respected in the community as a prominent citizen, her pitiful secret undiscovered until last Monday night, when, through misfortune she was forced to go to a hospital, where her sex was revealed. The story of this lifelong masquerade goes back of the woman s residence in Trinidad. She has told the hospital authorities, who discovered her secret, that for thirty-fve years she has worn men s clothes and has been known as man.
 Twenty-one years of this time has been spent in Trinidad, where the woman's secret was not even suspect ed. She has been employed most of the time as sheep herder, the solitary life being best suited to her lifewo& \ of coneealing her identity and
 sex. During that time the woman never been sick for a day, has never had close personal friend, and has tended to her duties and earned the re- spect of the community and a good living as we'll Her sole reason, she says, for passing as man was that as a woman she was forced to meet troubles and rebuffs that did not come to her in male attire. As a woman she starved. As a man the world gave her at least privacy and living. The woT- an is now old, and she has kept her secret well. Only cold, which devel- oped into pneumonia forced her to give herself to the care of a physician. when her sex was discovered. She is said to have been deeply grieved. even at this late day to have to give up the freedom of her disguise.
 The Trinidad Chronicle-News tells the woman's pitiful life story as fol lows:
 The story of Miss Vaubough, from the time she began as a man, thirty five years ago, reads like an imaginary tale, but it is all true. She was born in Marseilles, France, of well to do parents, and was given an education as liberal as the country provided. To- day she reads and writes six different languages, better than most people handle English alone. Her mother died in her infancy, and she did not re- call her, but her father gave her every advantage When she was twenty three years old, however, she decided to see something of the world, anu took passage on a sailing vessel, which landed her in Maine.
 Of course, the country was young, then. and a prejudice existed against woman working that is not found today, but Miss Vaubough found odd jobs to do which gave her a bare living for a time. Finally, matters reached a stage when she could not get any work at all solely because she was a woman and then it was she de- cided to don male attire.
 She drifted to Hannibal, Mo-, the old home of Mark Twain, and there she entered seriously into the life of the community. She became a clerk in a dry goods store, and filled that posi- tion for six years.
 In that time she gained the conf- denee and esteem of substantial peo- pie, and was offered and accepted a place in a bank as cashier. She held the place for eight years, and then the president of the institution died. Meantime the civil war had broken out, and was raging over Missouri like a pestilence. Banking business was paralyzed, and the Hannibal in stitution practically went out of busi- ness, throwing Miss Vaubough ont of position. She worked at various things, always a mans job, however, including railroad offices and clerking, and finally came west. Twenty-one years ago she reached Colorado.
 For many years she had been em. ployed on the Brown place as sheep herder, work that is hard for a strong man. The endurance displayed by the woman is one of the most remark able features of her stronge life.
 No love affair ever permeated the life of Miss Vaubough. pr. Forham asked particularly upon this point
 but the old lady promptly asserted that she had never had anything of the kind. Her sole motive in the mas ] querade. which finally lost any sem. blance of pretence to her, and became reality, was the fact that she was unable to secure anything to do in her true person. As a man she made a sue. cess of life. and finally lost all desire | to he anything but a man. living a