IN MALE ATTIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1920, Page 5

IN MALE ATTIRE.

WOMAN'S AMAZING LIFE. BOY WHO DUG OWN GBAVE. , By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Oqnrifht Sydney, Avgati it. The Falleni caae is proceeding. Medi* cal evidence was given to the effect that indications showed that Birkatt's head had smashed before his body wu placed in the Are. Birkett's son gave evidence that Fal* lent took him to the South Head abort* ly after his mother's death. ' She twica took him to the bush at night tLmo and dug deep holes, the Implication being that in the first instance she intended to throw him over the rocks, and nt'ih® other times meant 'to kHI and bury Ilia in the grave he himself had helped to dig. Received August 19, 10.50 p.m. , Sydney, August 19, ' Fallini was committed for trial o* the charge of murder.—Aua.-N,Z. Glble, Assn.

Eugene Fallini, a woman ,in male attire, who twice underwent marriage ceremonies with persons of her own sex, was arrested on a charge of murdering Annie Burkett (or Crawford),- lit Chatawood in 1017. The case possesses extraordinary features. According to the story she told the police, she married a man named Martello In Italy. " The couple went to New Zealand and resided there several years. Subsequently, with ' her daughter, the woman, went to Sydney under her maiden name, assUmed male garb, and worked as a man. In 1917 she went through the mony cf marriage with a widow named Burkett. Some months later Burkett's charred remains were* found in l the ashes of a lire in the bush at Chats* wood. The supposition was that she had fallen into the fire in a fit or while drunk, and an open verdict was recorded. < > Further evidence came into the hands of the police, which Jed them to charge Fallini with murder. In November last Pacini married another woman. I -