CIRCUS RIDER AS SPY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 9

CIRCUS RIDER AS SPY.

Lily Whiterose, - a circus rider, charged • with* drunkenness at Bradford, England, rc- . cently told the Bench an Extraordinary lifo , story.'.'; J;.;;/,.: , J; She was tho daughter, of an Army officer, : she.'said: • She ran away;from? homo while.in her teens, and joined Buffalo -Bill's show in Massachusetts.; She became a crack shot and : an'expert rider' uiidor; Colonol Cody's tuition! , Later," she married an' 'Austrian. "Armyofficer. ■ She followed him to'.-South 'Africa," and managed during the war to sccuVe somo secrot information respecting: the movements of tho British Army. . '.She. went to the Boer General De "V?et, sold him the information, and "'wasi'engaged as • a despatch runner. , _ ' She wore military attire,and'passed as, a man. - Remorse for her treachery overcame'her, and'she deserted the Boers and joined the British Army at Moddor River disguised as a •trooper. • She went through several battles, sho said, and earnod special distinction by carrying a wounded soldier part of tho way across tho rivor'on her horse., v , Afterwards she became ill'with enteric fever, 'andi'n hospital her sex was discovered. Sho then became a nurse, and'later, she concluded she returned home to resume her professional oareer. _ ' ' . ; She was fined 2"5., including costs, with the> alternative -of three weeks' imprisonment. !