THE MAN-WOMAN
AN UNUSUAL CASE. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 19. Eugene Falleni, the so-called manwoman who in 1920 figured in a sensational murder case, was released from Long Bay gaol, Born in Italy, she was taken to New Zealand as a child. As slip grew up she was possessed with a mania to pose as man and she signed on as a cabin hoy on a, Spanish ship of which her fathoi was captain. She roamed the seas until siie came to Newcastle.. I hen she stayed ashore and masqueraded as a man and finally married a widow. Mrs Birkett lived with her lor some months, neither Birkett nor her son suspecting the truth. Falleni treated them decently till on Eight Hour Day in 1920. overcome by a strange mania, she took Airs Birkett- to Chatswood. made her helplessly drunk, and in the scrub shockingly battered her skull with a. stone. She was condemned to death for murder, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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173THE MAN-WOMAN Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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