THIRTY YEARS’ DECEPTION.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 December 1918, Page 5

THIRTY YEARS’ DECEPTION.

alien who posed as a man. The removal to Leeds Infirmary of an individual who had for thirty yea r s been known as Ferdinand Hanson, resulted in the discovery that ‘‘he” was a ■woman, with a somewhat remarkable history. Seventy-three years of ago. she claims to be a Dane, hut was born at Hamburg. She is well educated. Carrie Green, I.a?ds, wh > was thcr

oughly convinced that her ledger was a widower with “expectations ' from wealthy relatives in Hamburg, She went so far 'as to Stnoke a clay pipe in bed every night. Hanson apparently had lived for, many years in New York declaring that “his” wife, a milliner, died there. On arriving in Eng’and, Hansou had secured work as a photographter at Leeds and elsewhere. After the outbreak of war the authorities came to the conclusion Hanson was a German, but on Mrs Green promising to “look after the old man,” they did not insist on internment. It is also stated that Hanson was for v twenty years an interpreter on a White Star liner. To the infirmary authorities she gives her name as Dora or Doris Hanson