SERVANT'S SECRET

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1937, Page 9

SERVANT'S SECRET

IDENTITY DISCLOSED

(Received November 19, 11.20 a.rn.l NEW YORK, November 18. A message from Oyster Bay statet that-it is disclosed that the woman who' worked' as a man for 14 years under the name of Alfred Grouard was Lucy Hall, a Pennsylvania servant girl, who ran *way from home forty years ago to see the world.

She informed her employer at Oyster Bay that she was born in the South of France and came to America at the age of foqr.

She sent a letter to her parents, not knowing they were dead, only a few days before her own death, saying that she was' dangerously ill and needed their help.

Not until her death a few days ago was it revealed that. Alfred Gfouard, who had worked as a chef to a socially prominent family for 14 years, was really a woman. Her determination to keep her secret cost her her life, as she'resisted every attempt to provide medical attention. It was disclosed after her death that she had been a Victim of* diabetes, a condition that might easily have been controlled by the. u§e pf insulin. The employer, who engaged a short, stocky chef without references because "he" impressed him as an efficient type of man, declared that Grouard was. a faultless servant, having apprently only two interests in life-booking and religion. Grpuard never left her employer's, estate for 14 years, never received a letter, and never had a caller. When her health faijed list year Grouard" repulsed her employer's physician hysterically,' but her sex was discovered while she was in a coma.