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Show HAS POSED FOR YEflRSAS IK WOMAN IN MALE ATTIRE FINALLY FINAL-LY DISCOVERED BY IMMIGRATION IMMI-GRATION OFFICIALS. STORY OF HARDSHIP IS TOLD Trousers Donned, She Says, in Order to Earn a Livelihood More Easily Easi-ly Nothing In Alien Laws to Bar Her. New York. Puzzling the Immigration Immigra-tion otllclnls at Kills isliiid Is the ease of a woman attired In man's clothing, cloth-ing, who was landed the other day from the New York otllco of the American Amer-ican line from Southampton and Cherbourg. Cher-bourg. Her case will bo taken up by a special board of inquiry, and Robert Wutrhorn, commissioner of Immigration, Immigra-tion, will no doubt refer the case to Washington for tlnal settlement. As tho woman, who is GO years old, passed through tho inspection lines garbed as a man, her femlnlno appearance ap-pearance caused her to be halted nnd questioned. She finally admitted that she was a woman and that the iiamo Frank Woodhull, which she had assumed, as-sumed, was not her proper name. Then more questioning brought out her story. To the examiners she said her true name is Mary Johnson nnd that sho was born In n little town outside of Quebec, of French-Canndlun parents. For 35 years, she said, sho had dressed according to the custom of her sex. until she found that sho could get along better attired as a man, and 15 years ago, while In California, Cali-fornia, she put on masculine garb and mndo a success as a canvnsser for books. Then she went to Now Or-cans, Or-cans, where her knowledge of French stood her In gooil stead, and sho did sven better. She saved enough to go to Franco this summer and visited the llttlo village vil-lage where her ancestors wero born. To tho Inspectors sho said that she was on her way to New Orleans to take up her work again. As Miss ' sr She Was Arrested Attired as a Man, Johnson could not be- .placed In tho detention roouiB for men, despite hor attire and for obvious reasons could not stay In the part of the big build- : lug assigned to women, the assistant commissioner was puzzled to know J how to care for the detained woman. Finally she was placed In a private room In the hospital. Miss Johnson's hnlr, which Is cut short, has a tinge of gray and on her Hp Is n faint down which she says has been tho bnne of her Hie. The wenr-Ing wenr-Ing of men's clothes for 15 yenrs hns ennbled Miss Johnson to take oh some of the ways of man. nnd when she talked sho wore her fedora hat tipped on one side and held her small hands In her trousers pockets. "I hnve worked as a man because I have had to," she said. "1 have al ways lived an honest nnd respectable llfo. I hnve traveled across the Atlantic Atlan-tic both ways, with threo men In tho room assigned to me, and they never knew my sex was different from tholrs. Why should I be denied the right to earn my living as I am doing? Hundreds of women In Canada are wearing men's clothes In order to earn nn honest living simply becauso they are obliged to do so. ' A woman of my ago can get no employment In the United States, especially if she Is not strong." There Is nothing In tho Immigration laws as to the proper clothing for aliens, but the laws or the state forbid women to wear male attire. |