MASQUERADED AS MAN TILL SHE DIED
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Determination to Keep Secret Cost Woman Her Life REFUSED MEDICAL4 AID
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(Received 17, 8.45 a.m.) .NEW YORK, Nov. 16. A message from Oyster Bay, 33 miles from this city, says that not until her death was the secret which a chef to a socially prominent family had concealed for 14 years revealed. The secret was that, working as a man, under thp name of Alfred Grouard, she was really a woman." Moreover, . the determination to k8sp her secret cost her her life. as sLeresisted every attempt to provide medical attention. It was disclosed after her death that she had been a victim of diabetes, a condition that might easily have been controlled by the use of insulin. The employer, who engaged the short and stoclty -chef without references because the applicant impressed him as an effieient type of man> declared that Grouard was a faultless servant, having apparently only two interests in life, cooking .and religion. Grouard never left her empJoyer's estate for 14 years and never had a caller. When her health failed last year Grouard hysterically repulsed her employer's physician, but her sex was discovered while she was in a state of coma.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 46, 17 November 1937, Page 5
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