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Show WOMAN POSED SE VN YEARS AS A, BO LONG BEACH, Cel., June 27 Mrt Boy Ballou ia no longer s "boy." Af ter seven yssrs of "-posing as her husband's hus-band's brother, during which time the worked as a bey deckhand on Ballon 't Crawfish craft, Mrs. Ballou vesterdsy walked into police- headquarters and told her story. She said she was being followed by a man she thought was a detective, gnd she decided to end her duplicity. While s girl in a convsnt, her heavy, bushy hair proved difficult for her to handle, and shs had it rut off. It was then she decided that she would make a better boy than a girl and she began be-gan to dress up and make ahort trips to the islands. It waa on one of these that she met Bsllon and they were married. Once ahe was pat ashore off Point Loma as a dynamite suspect operating againat the thensophist institution in-stitution there, but waa released. Mrsy Ballon says she got along much easier as a boy than she eonld by wearing wear-ing skirts, aa scarcely any attention ia paid to boys, whereas, aha' elaima. 8 woman 's lot on the tea is anything but pleasant. Her last experience waa ia San Diego when she was arrested on coming ashore from the steamer Yale, on which boat she waa 8 cabin, boy. After telling her story, she waa released re-leased by the police. The man who was following her yesterday had been told of her sex by another woman, and mere curiosity impelled aim to follow her. , . |