MURDER SENSATION RECALLED.
MAN-WOMAN RELEASED. United Press Association —By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, February 19. Eugene Falleni, the so-called manwoman, who, in 1920, figured in a sensational murder case, has been released from Long Bay gaol. She was born in Italy, and was taken to New Zealand as a child. As she grew up she was possessed of 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 month’s. Neither Mrs Birkatt nor her son suspected the truth. Falleni treated them till, on the Eight-hour Day, 1920, overcome by a strange mania, she took Birkett to Ohatswood, 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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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18807, 20 February 1931, Page 2
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169MURDER SENSATION RECALLED. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18807, 20 February 1931, Page 2
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