Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-01-21 | Page 2 | Girl in Man's Garb Recites Weird Story

GIRL IN MAN'S GARB RECITES WEIRD STORY j. NEW YORK, Jan. 20. "Sir," said a gentlemanly detective, "you're a woman." "Sir," said the well-dressed stranger In trousers, arrested on a street tonight. "I am; what of It?" The prisoner vas a qulot mannered girl or nineteen, wearing a frock suit of good material, a man's gray felt halt, glasses, spats and a man's street gloves. "My name Is Marion Hamilton-Gray," said tho girl, composedly, "and 1 havo been wearing boy3 and men's clothing for tho last ton years. Since 1 began to pose as a man 1 have learned to smoke a pipe and cigarettes." Miss Hamilton volunteered that her arrest was due to the Jealousy of a wealthy woman of Newark Valley, N. Y., who had wanted to marry hor. .In night court the magistrate hold that the case presented no violation of tho penal code, and she wns released.