A SIXTY YEARS' SECRET.
After masquerading as a man for sixty years, nnd serving as a soldier in General r. S. Grant's army during the clyil war. ■Albert" Clasbler. whose sex was discovered at tbe S.oldierg* Home in .Jumpy. Illinois, was last month committpd to an Insane asylum. The woman was born in Ireland seventythree years ag". She went to America as a stowaway, clad in boy's clothes. When the war between IhP Slates broke out she, | haying continued to pose as a man. enlisted in Company <1. Ninety-fiftli Illinois Infantry. She pirticiputed in some ~r the bloodiest battles nf th" war. nnel behaved wilh gallantry. When the war i-|n«e.| -!: ■ r-umed civil life ns a workman, bin the resnlis "' exposure during iLe- nnr made her helpless to support heTsclf. She then entered tbe Soldiers' Home where her .e_ was discovered "bile the was under the cart of a surgeon.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 17
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149A SIXTY YEARS' SECRET. Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 17
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