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... MAN WOMAN. DUCHESS'S MURDEROUS LOVER. Catherine Coome Wore Male I , kills he air Stetgallliters aid Clothing nearly 50 Years. Badly a Spat Details by our Naples correvondent el the terrible family tragedy which took 4 ple at Pottici, near that city. a ...
... Marylebone Police-court on Saturday recalls a remarkable story of male impersonation. ~ The accused was described as ““ Catherine Coome, aged 66, house decorator, of no fixed home ™ ; and she was charged on a warrant with obtaining by false pretences several ...
... trading as Ernest Stewart, domestic agency proprietor, at 88, Tavistockcrescent that our report of the charge agsinst Catherine Coome of obtaining ‘money by false pretences from Mrs. Emma Lockyer was incorrect in giving 68, Tavistockcrescent as the pr ...
... leaving hcre on Tuesday, and thought it right to speak the-e few words to you on this matter.—Yours, &c., CITARLEY WILSON, Catherine Coome), 341, Victoria Dock-rd., E., 27 Nov. ...
... DISGUISED FOR FORTY YEARS. WOMAN’S STRANGE STORY, Among the prisoners Mary I ebon Police Coart waa Catherine Coome, sixty-six, described the charge sheet as boose decorator. On name being called the gaoler there stepped Into tbe dock alight figure dressed ...
... friends would care 1o see lmo I should be pleased 1o see thew: before 1 leave London * for ever.”” The letier wae signed “ Catherine Coome, nee Charlie Wiison.”” The waman’'s sensavional story of having masqueraded as a man for over 30 years was given by the ...
... original case, the magistrate asked : Do you wish this case to be settled here, Catherine Coome ? I throw myself on the tuer•rcy of the Cour-rt. answered Catherine in a deep, musical, voice.. Well --, said tho magistrate, it appears for some ...
... MAN-WOMAN SENT TO GAOL FOR A SERIES OF MEAN' OFFENCES. Catherine Coome, who for 40 years successfully personated a man, and actually went through the marriage ceremony with a 'ady’smaid, with whom she lived for 14 years, was again charged at Marlborough-st ...
... Masquerading as Men, The story of Catherine Coome is strange enough, but, as the “ Lancet” reminds us, there is nothing particularly new about it There are historical instances of women who have passed their lives as men. Such a one was Christina Davis ...
... sex. A few months ago a goodlooking and respectable girl was found in male attire in the Edgware-road, and on Saturday Catherine Coome sappeared before Mr. Curtis-Bennett at Marylebone garbed as a decent mechanic of sixty. She was charged with defrauding ...
... “CHARLIE WILSON AGAIN. WOMAN WHO POSED AS A MAN FOR HALF A CENTURY. When Catherine Coome was called upon yesterday at the Westminster Police-court to answer a charge of having been drunk and disorderly an elderly person, neatly dressed in male attire ...
... Sept. 6,1911. Charley Wilson was then seventyeight, and was living in a Somersetshire village under her (ern name as Catherine COOMe. Married at the age of sixteen. she beeparated from her husband three year.: later, and resolved to earn her living as ...