AMAZING MAN-WOMAN NOW PINES FOR FRILLS

Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 4

AMAZING MAN-WOMAN NOW PINES FOR FRILLS

The exploits of .Englishwomen who have recently been discovered masquerading as men pale beside those of Jac queline Morct, a 'Washington girl who has just been sentenced at Casper (Wyoming) to two years’ imprisonment foi an armed hold-up. As cowboy-stoker in an ocean liner, Turn-runner, and bandit, this amazing woman' has lived as a man for over 15 years. Only once, prior to her arrest by the police, did anyone penetrate thrgirl’s disguise; It was disclosed at her

trial that as a child Jacqueline had been taught to ride and shoot as vvc|l is the most experienced hands on her father’s ranch in Washington State. Inheriting an adventurous spirit from her father, she dressed herself as a man and ran away to sea, signing on a ship bound for Alaska as a stoker. After adventures in rum-running, she eventually found herself pcnnilness as Casper, Wyoming. Borrowing a revolver from a friend, she entered a shop in this '■own,'held up the proprietor, and ap. preprinted his day’s takings, amount ng to £l6. The shopkeeper, however, rushed out by the back door, hurried lowp an alley, and captured the girl bandit at a street corner.

“I am tired of being a man,’’ she said after the Court had passed sentence on her. “When I get out I am going to buy myself a whole trunkful of nice undies and live my life all over again as a woman.”