MAN-WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15252, 15 March 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

MAN-WOMAN.

o SERVANT GIRL'S MASQUERADE. "I do not want to go to a home," said Annie Oownley, twenty-three, who, at Gloucester, pleaded "Guilty" to stealing wearing apparel and money. She was ac- • cordingly sentenced to two months' hard labour. A week before Cownley was charged, ■ under the name of Lilian Cownley, at Marylebone, with masquerading in male attire, and was discharged on promising not to repeat the offence. The property which she was charged with stealing belonged to Mr. Charles H. Organ, where she was employed as a domestic servant. lb was stated that she hod been in the employ of Mr. and Mrs. Organ for five weeks prior to January l, having a reference of some years' duration from a situation in Cheltenham. On January 6 she was missing, having apparently disappeared in the night with a quantity of Mr. Organ's clothes and a purse, containing £13 IDs,, which was kept in a drawer in Mrs. Organ bedroom. When received into custody Cownley expressed sorrow, and said she did not know what made her do it. She added that she left Mr. Organ's clothes at the place where she lodged. This was found to be true. In the train Cownley told the detective that she left Mr. Organ's house at three o'clock in the morning, going to Worcester and then to London. She spent the money in buying a suit of clothes—two guineas for a gentleman's overcoat, £2 for gentleman's boots, etc. Detective Hallett said the girl was an orphan, brought up in a cottage home at Worcester. For throe weeks she masqueraded as a man in London, and tried to get a situation as a man at Whiteley's.