MASQUERADE ENDjED. WOMAN ACTS AS CONSTABLE. LONDON, August 28. The arrest of “Herr” Karl Payer revealed a woman’s successful pose as a man for 12 years, says the Strasbourg correspondent of the Daily Mail. Payer, dressed in 'a main’s clothes, worked for four years as a motor mechanic at Mayenee. Later she became head of the Mayenee police night patrol and discharged delicate and hazardous duties to the satisfaction of the authorities, who did not suspect her sex. Payer lived with another woman, who recently gave birth to twins. She registered herself as the father, and the fraud was discovered only by accident.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1931, Page 8
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