WOMAN POSES AS HUSBAND
SUCCESSFUL DISGUiSE. A remarkable story of a woman I who for 12 years passed herself oif as a man and earned her living by the most virile occupations was unfolded in a trial before the Mainz courts. Maria Einsumann was the wife of a goldsmith, but their marriage was dissolved in 1919. Thinking it easier for a man than for a woman to find work, she donned an old suit of her late husband's. clothes, and with the help of his insurance card assumed his identity. To complete the disguise she. persuaded a friend, another divoreed woman, to live with her as her "wife," and gave herself out as the father of the friend's two illegitimate children. Her strange career was ended by an injury to her hand. She. was sent to a hospital where her secret was discovered.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 434, 19 January 1933, Page 3
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143WOMAN POSES AS HUSBAND Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 434, 19 January 1933, Page 3
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