EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF DECEPTION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3792, 10 September 1883, Page 4

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF DECEPTION.

In the year 1788 a young man, tho son of a tailor named Gunn, who was a clover artist, but of a wild roving disposition, was obliged, in coiisequenco of being engaged in a midnight brawl, to fly from Edinburgh to London in company with his twin-sister. A few years after it was reported that ho had died in London, and his sister returned to her nativo city, Edinburgh. In was noticed that she was a woman of maseuhir appearance. Aided by her guardian, Iter parents being no moro, she opened an academy for drawing and painting for voting ladies, and was very successful, her school Steadily increasing in reputation for at least

twenty years, and she was engaged as teacher at all the principal ladies' boardingschools as professor of her art. She was a woman of some literary ability, aud published poetry. While in the midst of her prosperity she fell into habits of dissipation, which ultimately shut up her academy, deprived her of her outside engagements, and gradually reduced her to absolute beggary, so that she had to seek a final refuge in the workhouse. There the discovery was mado that it was not tho brother who died in London, but the sister. The supposed Miss Gunn was' a man .' She was turnod into the streets, and, resuming male attire, obtained at last employment as an artist, married, and had children, including twins. Of his latter years no record is in existence. —London Society.