A CURIOUS STORY.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 195, 23 January 1875, Page 3

A CURIOUS STORY.

A discovery has been made of 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 labourer at Great Liver, passing under the name of ‘ Henry Philip Clarke.’ Whilst returning home in charge of a horse and cart, in company 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 Dr Clarke called in, but the gentleman entertained no hope of recovery. ‘ Clarke ’ was removed to the workhouse on the following clay, and died in a few hours after his admission. The body was placed in the dead house, and laid in the part allotted to males, but on the body being washed, greatly to the surprise of the workhouse 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 has reguarly 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.