A CURIOUS STORY.

Evening Star, Issue 3731, 6 February 1875, Page 3

A CURIOUS STORY.

A discovery has been mady o! a ■woman having for some time past lived and worked as a man in the neighborhood of Bolton. The person had been for several weeks employed as a farm laborer at Great Liver, passing under the name of “ Henry Philip Clarke.” Whilst returning home in charge of a horse and cart, in compan> with three men, who had also horses and carts, • “ (Clarke,” who was behind the others, was seen lying upon the ground. The carts . were stopped, and the men found that their fellow-carter was seriously injured. The person considered to be of the male sex said he was attempting to get into the cart, but one of the wheels passed over his body. The individual was removed home, and I)r Clarke called in, but the gentleman entertained no hope of recovery. “ Clarke ” was removed to the wo-kkouae on the following day, and died ip a few hours , after his admission. The body was placed in the dead honae, and laid in the part allotted to males, but on the body being washed, greatly to the surprise of the work- ‘ attendants, it Was discovered to be that of a female. She had worked as a

laborer on another farm previous to the one where last employed. She had regularly slept with another servant, a man, who had no suspicion whatever that his bed-fellow belonged to the opposite sex. When living she was taken to be a young man of about twenty years of age, but since death she is considered to be nearly forty. She has a handsome countenance, and it is thought not unlikely she may be a farmer’s daughter of respectable connection.