WOMAN-MAN.
. LOADING- STEEL TO KEEP CHIIV . DREN., '/ ' ; As. the result of an accident at Derwentnaugh, two miles west of Newcastle-on-Tyrie, it was discovered that a supposed 'lad of eighteen, who l.ud been working in a wherry since May under the Wmeof Jame9. Palmer, is really ariiarrie<l woinan of thirty-one. ; ' Some Eteel plates for shipbuilding wero ~ being loaded into the wherry when one slipped and fell on ,tho "lad|" causing severe injuries on the body. A. doctor was called. "Palmer" asked for all men -, to leave the shed where.she w.i 6 lying, : and then told the doctor-that rfio was a woman of thirty-one, married h a Gcrman sailor, whom she had left en ac- ( count of ill-treatrnent. She declined to give any other information about herself, except that to Bet food for hersolf ! and two' children she had sought employ- , ment as a man, and 6inco May had,work- j ed in the wherry. , , The woman was removed to N*wrastln Infirmary, .whore sho was found to bo , Buffering from severe internal i.i;urieß. j She gave the name of Margarot Neilson.. ,
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1642, 8 January 1913, Page 8
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178WOMAN-MAN. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1642, 8 January 1913, Page 8
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