LONG MASQUERADE
WOMAN AS MAN 40 YEARS
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2b. An astonishing case of a woman who lived as a man for 40 years, lias been revealed by the death of “Jack Gailand, aged 67. Only half a. dozen people knew the closely-guarded secret of tins individual —wMI known as a. writer, soldier, and charity worker. _ Garlaiul cast off her sex m 1896, -when she decided to pose- as a man because it would give, her greater freedom to help the needy. him served m the United States Army in the 1 lnlippmes, and' was decorated. Later she became a journalist, and in that capacity and as. a social worker was well known under the pseudonym “Mr. Jack B. .Garland.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19361003.2.162
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 15
Word Count
121LONG MASQUERADE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 15
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.