rently spent the greater part of her life as a man.
When employed in early life as a manservant on a farm, she had
married her mistress's daughter. The pair were married for
twenty-nine years, but during the last six years lived apart,
owing to the "husband's" dissipated habits. No one ever suspected
her sex. She was of masculine appearance and good muscular
development. The "wife" took charge of the body and buried it.

A more recent case of the same kind is that of "Murray Hall," who
died in New York in 1901. Her real name was Mary Anderson, and
she was born at Govan, in Scotland. Early left an orphan, on the
death of her only brother she put on his clothes and went to
Edinburgh, working as a man. Her secret was discovered during an
illness, and she finally went to America, where she lived as a
man for thirty years, making money, and becoming somewhat
notorious as a Tammany politician, a rather riotous "man about
town." The secret was not discovered till her death, when it was
a complete revelation, even to her adopted daughter. She married
twice; the first marriage ended in separation, but the second
marriage seemed to have been happy, for it lasted twenty years,
when the "wife" died. She associated much with pretty girls, and
was very jealous of them. She seems to have been slight and not
very masculine in general build, with a squeaky voice, but her
ways, attitude, and habits were all essentially masculine. She
associated with politicians, drank somewhat to excess, though not
heavily, swore a great deal, smoked and chewed tobacco, sang
ribald songs; could run, dance, and fight like a man, and had
divested herself of every trace of feminine daintiness. She wore
clothes that were always rather too large in order to hide her
form, baggy trousers, and an overcoat even in summer. She is said
to have died of cancer of the breast. (I quote from an account,
which appears to be reliable, contained in the _Weekly
Scotsman_, February 9, 1901.)

Another case, described in the London papers, is that of
Catharine Coome, who for forty years successfully personated a
man and adopted masculine habits generally. She married a lady's
maid, with whom she lived for fourteen years. Having latterly
adopted a life of fraud, her case gained publicity as that of the
"man-woman."

In 1901