A "WOMAN'S RUSE.

Evening Star, Issue 14637, 5 August 1911, Page 11

A "WOMAN'S RUSE.

REMARK A BLK MASQUERADE. A woman's extraordinary bolinvioiuin masrjueradivg as a man for a poritxl of somnthinjc liho two yoars, rluriiif; fu'e months of which &lto was an iroti foundry, lias just come to light. For most of the time ::uo was living in the same inurrhhoihood as Iter husband and other relatives (says tho London • Evening Timo.s'), and sho was ultimately " given away'' (or her identity discovered) by tho man who '■ gave betaway " at her weddinit;. The woman, who'is stated to k> tho mother of two children, and tho wife of a local carter, kept her hair very short, and _ was an inveterate smoker. _ For a time she earned a precarious livelihood by tolling bootlaces, and such wares. It was in October of last year that sho came to be employed in u well-known Cliertsoy foundry. Her work was principally with tho iron moulders of :t somewhat arduous character—and occasionally she did some; plate moulding. '"Toddy," as sho was called, left the foundry at tho beginning of March. Occasionally site had been unwell, and iu consequence? she was advised to seek lighter employment. Afterwards sho appears to have taken to li.di hawking. '' Teddy's " identity canto to bo established through meeting tho man who gave her away at hor wedding; but when challenged, sho stoutly maintained that she was one of tho sterner

sex, and sho adopted the sanio attitude when the man had informed tho police. Once inside, the police station, however, alio admitted everything. She explained her extraordinary behaviour by stating that sho wished to wateh her husband without his knowing her whereabouts, and was liberated on condition that sho returned to clothes of a feminine character. It is statod that tho woman was occasionally in tho same publici house as her husband, and that she even raised the question of her own supI posed disappearance in order to elicit i her husband's views.