ABNORMAL WOMAN LEAVES GAOL.
SERVED ELEVEN YEARS OF LIFE SENTENCE. POSED AS MAN AND MURDERED. WIDOW. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Eugene Falleni, the so-called manwoman, who in 1920 figured in a sensational murder case, has been released from Long Bay gaol. Born in Italy, she was taken to New Zealand as a child. As she grew up she was possessed with a mania to pose as a man. She signed on as cabin boy on a Spanish ship, of which her father was captain. She roamed the seas till she came .to Newcastle, and then stayed ashore, masquerading as a man. Finally she .married a widow, Mrs Birkett, and lived with her for some months, neither Mrs Birkett nor her son suspecting decently till, on Eight-Hour Day, 1920, overcome by a strange mania, she took Mrs Birkett to Chatswood, made her helplessly drunk in the scrub, and shockingly battered her skull with a stone. She 'was condemned to death for murder, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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