IN MALE ATTIRE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 440, 25 January 1890, Page 6

IN MALE ATTIRE.

A Woman Who for Forty two Y’ears Was Known as a Man.

On the arrival of a passenger steamer from St. Briene the commander informed the police that a woman attired as a man was on boa d, says the “Dundee News/’ She had, it appeared, taken a passage for St. Briene, but the captain, having noticed certain peculiarities about the passenger, on reaching that port, summoned a medical man, and he declared that the pseudo man was really a woman. He further certified that she was suffering from a slight concussion of the brain, and the French au horities, in view of her mysterious conduct, refused to allow her to land On the steamer entering the harbour of St. Helier the woman took a cab and proceeded to a boarding-house, where she h d previously lodged for some time under the name of Louis Hermann. She had every appearance of manhood, and from her easy deportment it is evident that male attire was no novelty to her. She wore a fur waistcoat, a long overcoat, a hat and a turned-down collar. She smokes a long pipe or cigar with an air of one accustomed to the habit. Left an orphan at the age of 13, she then resolved to adopt the male attire. She has now reached the age of 55, so that for 42 years she has been travelling the world, and has been known as a man. Her calling has been that of a courier, and in that capacity she has travelled widely. She has a knowledge of several Continental languages, and is otherwise well informed. The name by which she was generally known was Louis Hermann Tobosh, but in some cases she has dropped the last name, and simply calls herself Louis Hermann.