Bisbee daily review., 1910-10-09

lerce of women posing as men has caesed the Daily Nal to make al investigation of the subject It says:
 In spite of the common opinion that a woman cannot for long pass as a man without arousing suspicion, two striking instances have recently come to light where for a number of years the imposition has never been even suspected.
 Marie Le Roy passed for twenty five years as Harry Lloyd at En. field and her sex was only discovered on her death a few weeks ago. and Mrs. Elena Smith has engaged for the last five years in business in New York as 'Mr. A. l.. Martinez" and her sex was not even suspected till she confessed il with some scathing crit icism Of the American as ae appears to his fellow men.
 One of the most interesting of these imPersonations is that of Dr. James Barry, E D. inspector general of hospitals. concerning whom Lieuten. ant Colonel E. Rogers sends us ,.e following account taken from the introduction to his book. "A Modern Sphinx:
 It may sound like a paradox but we very much doubt if ever there was a woman with a past of so pronounced type as that of the late pr. James Barry, NJ. D. inspector gen. eral of hospitals. who. having per sonated man during her adult years died at the ripe age of T years in Dawn street. piccadilly. London, on July i5, 1865 and was then and there found to be of the female sex.
 Reference 10 --22rt's Army List, January 1, 1865. will show that James Barry, NJ D. entered her majesty's s service as hospital assistant" July 5 1913, and as she was promoted to be assistant surgeon, December T. 1915 the possibility but not the probability is that she served in the medical de partment of our army at Waterloo At all events she was in the Crimea, yet no record Of the lady's war ser vice is placed to her credit
 It is a curious but undeniable fact that Dr. Barry was the veritable Down of our army.
 GU ,,,a ,In,apt ;s m. aitasyatb h et. choose her own foreign stations. She could be, and was. as insubordinate as she liked without remonstrance. In a word, she was treated by the au- thorities as If she were as she was a woman.
 Need we wonder then. that her pro motion was rapid, and that she even managed to jump up two steps at time in her ambitious climb to the ID, of the tree. Thus. she never was surgeon 1this sounds derogatory); but she became surgeon-ma5or. No yember ae. 1927. She never was as sistant inspector, nor .brevet deputy inspector general. which were grades in the medical officers promotion in those days; but she became deputy inspector general. May Is. 1851. and inspector general December T., 1858. Dr. Barry died July Is, 1865. and her grave in Kensal Green, bearing the very simple. inscription, Dr. James Barry inspector general of Army Hos pitals; died July 15. 1865: aged n years: may still be found al kensaI Green Cemetery, (Grave 19,30l.)
 In the following year an inspired, article in "All the Year Round en- titled "A Mystery Still" because the temporary talk of the town, for in It was disclosed the strange eventfui history of the Sphinxlike individual, Not only was Dr. Barry discovered to be woman. remarks the writer sbut if was made evident that in eariy life she had been mother. An m ouest was held tin consequence o' her refusal to be medically attended in her last illness, and next day ' was officially reported to the war office that the deceased inspector gen erai of hospitals was in truth woTl an.
 Attention was called 70 this queer nay. unparalleled case, by j core sDondent in the Lancet, ir conse- queuce of a question asked by Dr George Bright, NJ D. United states navy. in the following terms, There is a tradition. to which l nave seen an occasional reference. nat there was la the British army medical officer who attained high rank and who was found to be. post norfen of the female sex. The naInc asctieed to tais person in the references wi icf have fallen under my eye Is soirf times James Barry. sometimes Aaf leod. walI you please inform me whether this story res@s upon sny c-e-i.abIe foundation or ls the mere f.-.-, mt of an Idle brain"
 The replies to this query were nu merous and interesting Suffice # however, to quote few extracts irci' a letter l wrote when captain o the Third West India regiment
 In 1857 I travelled with ttss i' martrabIe character on board the in ter-Cosuriai steamer plying betweei St. Thomas and Barbados. when l o'