IN MALE ATTIRE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 770, 19 March 1910, Page 10

IN MALE ATTIRE.

GIRL MASQUERADES AS A MAN FOE . -"■ TEN YEARS. .■'--. After an extraordinary career masquerading as a youth,' Miss Marion Hamilton ■Gray* who describes herself as. . the "daughter of a late colonel of the British Army," was ordered recently by a. magistrate, Mr. Kernochan, sitting at the night police court, to discard male.garb and dress as a woman. Taking a. pipe from her pocket, says the ''Daily .Mail," Miss Gray, who is ill outward appearance tt handsome youth of. nineteen, zikod ■ the magistrate if her arrest was due- to information laid by "a woman twice, my age," of Newark Valley, Now York. 1 "That; woman," she. added, "fell in love with me, and insisted on marriage. She told me. that if I would iibt she would make my ifhole life hideous for me. She has almost succeeded."

. Miss Gray lied from the woman to Now i York, where stories of her, or rather him, posing as tho "Marquis of Gray, sole heir to tho iDukedoni of Hamilton," led.. to her arrest. One man.whom she deceived with ft story of a 'delayed remittance paid the'week's bill of tho. "dis-

tressed nobleman" at the Lathiim Hotel. Sho then took bachelor quarters in West 2-ith Street, ; Whore she paid court to'the landlady's' daughter. . When nrrestcil slife declared that, the tales, of her posing as a marquis were grossly exaggerated. Gassing indignniitly from pretty brown oyes through oyeglassa; at tho detectives she protested that she had travelled all over the world as a man withput ever being molested. "I was. bovn at ferozepore, in India," she explained. ■ "My. father died, and then mother and I inherited .£IOO,OOO. I was placed under tho guardianship of an uncle. Since I was nine ybats old-1 have worn boy's clothing. There is a reason, but don't ask me what it is" Liberated by • the magistrate, Miss Gray returned to her bachelor lodgings and bought female attire, declaring New York to be "a funny place."