POSED AS MARRIED MAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1263, 25 June 1914, Page 4

POSED AS MARRIED MAN.

GIRI/S SUCCESSFUL DLS GUISE.

For ten years a girl of Spanish descent successfully masqueraded as a married man under the name of Ralph Kerwineio. The disclosure of her real identity has caused a great sensation in Milwaukee, where she was arrested a few weeks ago. The amazing case ol sex impersonation was brought to light by the “dashing Spaniard’s” girl friend, Miss Mamie White, as whose husband “Ralph” has_ posed since 1904. A curious incident of the case is that “Ralph” recently deserted “his” friend, and under a new eugenic marriage law ot the State of Wisconsin, obtained a certificate of good health trom a Milwaukee doctor, and by virtue of that certificate, contracted a legal “marriage” on March 24th with Miss Dorothy Klenowski. The jealousy of the deserted “wife” led to the denunciation of “Ralph.”

The real name of the girl “husband” is Cora Kerwineio. She resolutely refused to make any statement, but Miss Mamie White furnished the authorities with a lull explanation. “It came about,” she said, “because vve were discouraged over our inability to earn more than girls’ wages. Cora liked to masquerade in men’s clothing, and she made a remarkably handsome hoy. One day when we were discussing our dark future Cora declared her intention of becoming a man. The more we joked about it the more serious the project became. “ 'I can act like a man, and look like a man,’ Cora said, ‘arid I can earn a man’s wages. We can remain chums as we are now, and my larger wages will help out your woman’s wages.’ So one night after outwork had ended we took men’s clothing to a room in another part of Cleveland, where we were then living, and I helped Cora to cut bet hair short. We then moved to Milwaukee, where Cora found uo difficulty in getting a position. She worked as a man in several different business houses. As we wanted to be together we rented a room, and the people with whom we lived never doubted that we were man and wife.” When arrested Cora, or Ralph, w T as employed as a clerk in a wellknown mercantile establishment. “Ralph” was married in the regular way to her second “wife.”