Show WOMAN KEPT SECRET WELL masquerades in mans clothes for fop fifty years for half a century catherine coombes a moman 68 years of ago age has been masquerading as a man at the age of 15 she bhe was married as a woman to a man named percival val coombes Coomb cs but soon changed her character and went out into the world in malo male attire she called herself charles wilson and her sex was not suspected even when she worked on board ship in close companionship with men she has been a painter and decorator and now claims that as her trade she has labored as a docker and done a job still wearing mearing trousers at a printing office As a man she married a woman with whom she lived tor for fourteen years at Hudders huddersfield field four years ago she astonished the westminster police she balked walked into the station dressed in mans clothes and smoking a briar pipe and declared her sex london mirror |