NOTORIOUS "MAN-WOMAN"
SENSATIONAL, MURDER RECALLED
WOMAN RELEASED . FROM PRISON.
By Telegraph—Pr«B» As?n. —Copyright. Sydney, February 19.
Eugene Falleni, the sorcalled “manwoman,” who in 1920 figured in a shnaational murder cage, has been released from the Long Bay gaol. Born in Italy, she was taken to New Zealand as a child. As she grew up she was possessed with the mania of posing as a man.''She signed on as a cabin boy on a Spanish ship of which her father wae captain.' She roamed the seas till she came to Newcastle and their stayed aehore, masquerading as a man. Finally she married a widow named Birkett and lived with her for some months, neither Birkett nor her son suspecting the. truth.
Falleni treated them decently till on Eight Hour Day in 1920, overcome by a strange mania, she took Birkett to Chatswood, made her helplessly drunk in the scrub and shockingly battered her'with a stone. She was condemned to death for murder, but sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1931, Page 8
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