DOCTOR'S SON POSES AS A WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13396, 26 January 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

DOCTOR'S SON POSES AS A WOMAN.

BECOMES ENGAGED AND THEN COMMITS SUICIDE.

A max who. in all the glory of false hair and woman's frocks, won the heart of an unfortunate schoolteacher, became engaged to be married to him, and finally committed suicide, has, needless to say, created a sensation in the town where he played his part. This was at Breslau, but the love affair began in Paris —the city of love affairs, of rogues, and of fools. The teacher went to Paris to perfect himself in the French language. While there lie made the acquaintance of a lady named Dina Alma de Paradea. She was not quite a gir-1, but she was altogether charming, though she looked 30. The lady said she was from Brazil, and the daughter of a French Consul there. She wore magnificent jewels, anil was altogether charming. The Breslau teacher fell in love with her, they were engaged, and the happy teacher returned to Breslau to make preparations for their marriage. Dina Alma arrived at Breslau shortly afterwards and took up her abode in a fashionable pensionnat there. She went about with her nance making purchases for their future home, hi some unexplained way, however, the people of the pensionnat began to have misgivings about Dina Alma. Like Charley's Aunt, who was also from Brazil, she was not. what she seemed, and the suspicion hatshe was a man in woman's clothes was strengthened. She was accused of false pretences. The game was thereupon all up, and the chaste Dina Alma took poison, and in a few minutes was dead. Then the police stepped in. and 60011 the audacious deceptions of Dina was known to all Breslan, which did not know whether to sym- j pathise with or laugh at the man who had been so painfully duped. The police soon identified Dina as

Tin; STEPSON OK A mkoical M.V.V,--' living in Berlin. He w»s in fact a. fullgrown man of about and was much taller than the Breslau teacher who had fallen in love with him. His waist was small, and so were his feet and hands, but he was broad-shouldered and possessed a fine baritone voice with nothing of the treble about it. An examination of the remains, however, revealed an elaborate make-up worthy of a. successful pantomime, artist. The hair, bust, and hips, which had so enchanted the poor teacher, were all false. It seems that Dina. was quite a shy fiancee, and in his relations with his " future husband" was always most formal. He had allowed his dark hair to grow about twenty inches long, and with the addition of the false locks referred to presented the appearance of having a magnificent head of hair. It is stated that the teachei was very jealous when Dina Alma spoke to other men, and that he was terribly afraid of offending him. Both in Paris and in Breslau the teacher was frequently warned that all was not right with his fiancee, but he laughed at all suspicions. Medical men think that Dina Alma must have hypnotised the unfortunate lover. Dina Alma, says the Chronicle correspondent, left an unpaid bill of 400 marks owing to the landlady of the pensionnat, who will have to recoup herself from the box full of lace dresses, costly embroideries, silver nick-nacks, and false diamonds which this wonderful Dina. Alma had accumulated. The police also found razors with which it scorns Dina smoothed away all hirsute growths from "her" face. The" brother of Dina Alma is in a lunatic asylum. Their mother was also mentally infirm.