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AMAZING STORY.
MAN AS WOMAN FOR 10 YEARS.
years.
SHOT BY WIFE,
Then she went to the police-com-
ti
THE CHINA MAIL,
"ABSOLUTE INDECENCY" ON THAMES.
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SHANGHAI'S BUND,
PAVING STONES AGAINST FISTS AND FEET.
AN EVENING FRACAS,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1928.
BUSY IN CHIHLI.
PALACE WEDDING.
BUREAU TO CLEAR UP THE WHERE SCOTTISH KINGS WERE
PROVINCE.
BAD HABITS BARRED,
CROWNED,
ANCIENT SCONE.
Before the Registrar, Mr. The Chihli Bureau of Civil Perth. Lord Scono (pronounced A. J. Martin, in the British Police Affairs is reported by the Chinese "Skoon") the only son and heir of Court, on Aug. 23, Junn Ali, & papers to have issued a series of the Ear! nnd Countess of Mane- Ceylonese, was charged with 17 regulations relating to the re-field, was married recently at
ssaulting Alphonse Altra, an form of conditions in the pro-Scone-palace, Perth, the ancestral unemployed Filipino, and causing vince. These include:—
home of the Mansfelds, to Miss him grievous bodily harm, at
Dorothea Helena Carnegie, dangh- about 8.30 p.m. on August 22.
ter of Sir Lancelot and Lady Carnegie.
"Some of these, with men who DRESS CENSORSHIP. missariat and gave herself up saw me and made love to me day telling the Investigating Magistrate after day, became passionate after what she had done. She told him a while, and so they wore danger- of the martyrdom that she and their ous. child had endured. And then she' could tolerate an arm about
THE RIVER. GIRL, recounted the remarkable history my waist without a tremor, but the of her husband, perhaps the most tightening of that grip was the River girls and men are up in notorious of French war deserters. danger sign that I dared not ignore. arms at the definite orders given There are many recorded in-
WHY HE FLED.
I could not bear to be fondled, and by the Thames Conservancy and stances of men successfully mag-
I could not respond to the advances Port of London Authority to lock It was living querading na
his experiences in the women and
which so often I received.
keepers not to allow indolently war which re- strange, lives haunted by the dread early days of the
"By this time I was known dressed" people to pass through the The most amazing solved Paul to adopt his amazing among the women who frequented locks. of exposure,
While serving as a exploit of modern times came to masquerade..
the Bois, and as some of them were The order makes lock-keepera light soon after the war, when corporal in the 102nd Infantry on intimate terms with sonie of my official dreas, censors.
Two Chinese police constables French,"girl" threw off a studied Regiment, he was wounded
The officials generally agree that testified to arresting the accused feminine pose and revealed herself Andechy on November 4, 1914. admirers the word soon spread as a man, an army deserter hiding Five of his comrades were blown that I was a man-hater-a lively there have been numerous com as he was fighting with two for
eigners on the Band foreshore. coquette, but with a curious twist | plaints up and down the river, and shell, a
Mr. Ernest Arthur Roberts to dscpe the death penalty.. Mlle. to pieces by a German
in my character.
that some restriction was noces-
said that he, another foreigner, Landgard became Paul Grappe, a fragment of which took off two
"I could think of no better ex- sary, but there are other lock-keep- and the complainant got to the married man with a child. Now joints of one of his fingers. Bul Grappe is dead, shot, on her own he was arrested and charged with cube for failing to respond to. men's era whose experience indicates that Bund about 8.30 p.m. and the complainant, who was a little confession by the wife who re- having mutilated himself-a charge advances and for playing, as I did no ban is called:for.
at this time, the game of 'leading Men working at the enally reach drunk, started to assault a few mained loyal to him for ten long which, if proved, implied the lovers up the garden, dismissing ed locks are strong in their con- persons whom he met on the way,
penalty of death.
them summarily on the slightest | demnation of what He was acquitted by the courtretexts as soon as I saw the dan-"absolute indecency," and in curious When they got to the Jinkee-road they call kicking them off the grass. martial, and sent to depot in the
ger sign.
contrast to the usual criticism of Jetty they met the accused and - Paris. One of the most re-rear to recover from his wounds; "It was thus that 1 became for all modern fashions,-men markable masquerades of modern but his treatment at that time whe
are menn Chinese sitting on the rail, knew me 'La Garconne-ationed as the chief offenders. Altras kicked the Chinese, who times is recalled by the tragic and the suspicion with which he character which I was able to
Where there are few houses and immediately got up and left. death in Paris of Paul Grappe, who still seemed to be regarded set up in maintain throughout a scare where the locks are not often lined.The accused remonstrated with for ten years successfully disguised him a apirit of revolt, and he began adventures in Montmartre and the with people, opinion favours the Altras, and the latter hit the ac- himself and led the life of a woman to meditate desertion.
other pleasure haunts of this gay boaters, and their critics are class-cused in the face. The man ask- in the French, capital.
city."
ed as "Grundles,"
ed for an explanation and the only answer he received was some more blows. wanting to start a fight, left the The accused, apparently not Bund, and witness took hold of Altras and the three of them started walking towards Nan- king-rond. After they had gone a little way, the accused came up with a big piece of paving stone and threw it at the complainant, hitting him on the left shoulder and knocking him down. then ran away. Witness and his friend assisted the complainant to gain his feet and they had started to move off when they heard a shout:Look out! Look out!" and along dashed the accused with another Hock of stone. This time the stone hit
of
YOUTH'S PASSIONATE LOVE.
Look-keepers, it was pointed out have no right to refuse admission One of Suzanne Landgard's most to anyone, and interested river
His decision was finally/taken So successfully' did he efface his at Chartres on May 22, 1975, when real identity as a deserter from the he learned that, though Kis wound French Army in the character he was still so bad that, he could not adopted as Mile. Suzanne Landgard use his hand, he was to be sent that he not only deceived the wo-back to the fighting line in another fervent lovers men among whom he worked as a regiment.
seamstress, but
actually lived "It was through a dozen romances of love prompted
not cowardice which my desertion," he
and intrigue in the cabarets and wrote, "It was resentment against.
dance-halls of Montmartre.
his
He had passionate men
at
harsh treatment and insinuations
that. I had shown cowardics—|| feet vowing their love who had got my wound from a shell for him; he dined and sup-which killed the five men nearest to ped in every one of the "gay me and left me spattered with night resorts of the Hill of Plea their blood and fragments of their sure with men who sought the flesh."
oni
known bachelor girl).
favours of the gay, pretty woman THE FEMALE IMPERSONATOR. they believed him to be Through- During the early days of his Montmartre Suzanne was disguise Grappe was little more Garconne". (the than a prisoner in the garret, where his wife concealed him; in a mean During his ten years' masquerade Paris street. He,dare not venture no he suspected Paul Grappe's out for fear of detection, and his secret. It was known to only one wife had to exercise the umost care person his wife. She remained on her infrequent visits to him lest | loyal to him throughout, and at she was watched.
great person! danger to herself, Eventually the suspicions of risk which might have involved her jother women made it necessary for in a heavy term of imprisonment, him to leave the district for other helped to hide him in the trying early days of his disguise.
A TRAGIC IRONY.
quarters.
"it may appear," said Grappe, at the time of his freedom, dis- cussing his carly trials, "that to a man with my natural advantages of a smooth skin, a slim figure, and,
was 03 haneat devotees are awaiting a test case.'
King Alfonso being "tagged" for the fifteenth or twentieth thre * Madrid in the Bower campaign to aid the tubercular children of Stakti.
Had Paul Grappe's secret been dia closed to the authorities he would have had to face a firing party, small hands and fect, it should be youth who wooed "her," despite all
efforts to discourage him. and pay the inevitable penalty of a an easy matter to impersonate a wo-
"I tried cool his ardour, to per deserter on active service,
man. It is not. There is a tragic irony in the "The female impersonator
of
"Order Necessary."
He
Altras on the head, knocking him
unconscious. :
The examination of all officials; The washing out of bad habits; The training of the populace; The advocacy of thrift;
Three huge bonfires broadcast on the previous The punishment of corrupt the glad tidings
night. These beacons of joy are rentry; The granting of self-govern-kindled on such occasions. en the
ment;
distant heights of the widely" The Institution of a census; stretching Munsfeld estate as dusk The advocacy of village ad- approaches. They can be seen
ministrations;
from the secluded, hill-sheltered " Plans for famine and flood re-shooting-lodge 12 miles distant
where the bride. lief:
and brideernisa The reform of corrupt society; are to spend the early part of their Plans for the reorganisation of honeymoon.
the police;
The principal bonfire 'shed ita The suppression of bandits and light on the cathedral-like pile of The suppression of opium.
Scone-polace from a height in the Scone Woods. It is claimed to he the largest bonfire ever burned in WATER QUEUES.
the Highlands, Over 300 tons of brushwood, tar, and other comibus- tible materials were used in its
36-HOURS PLIGHT OF LARGE LONDON AREA.
construction.
It was lit by one of the oldest main which burst at Honor Oak, were lit when a signal rocket was Repairs on the 42-inch water tenants on the catate. The others S.E., and deprived many thou-fired. sands of people of water for 36 hours, were duly completed.
More than 1,200 guests attended the festivities following the well- Up till late in the evening re- ding. They were received in eight sidents in Anerley, Penge, Honor marquees erected in front of the Oak, Forest Hill, and adjoining palace on the lawns which, sweep districts were still greatly incon-down to the banks of the River venienced by the absence or in-Tay. sufficiency of water.
Old Coronation Hall.
round of the streets in the neigh-to the Mansfield title has been
At night water-carts made a
It is the first time that an heir bourhood of Penge and Becken- ham, the drivers calling out "Any it has been in the possession of married at Scone-palace, although water-any, water?" and people rushed from their houses with the family since the 17th century. jugs to secure a supply.
Formerly it contained the corona- tion hall of the Scottish kings.
At 10 p.m. there were signs that the normal supply was grad. Recently, with a brilliant sup best- tally being restored, some houses ing upon the Mullioned windows, having a trickle of water, althe bride and bridegroom stood in without supplies. though many others were still the ancient gallery.
women
A queue of 50 men, and children, lining up at a tap on building estate in Marlow-road, Anerley, at 8 p.in., was one fea ture of the water shortage.
wore
The bridegroom, tall and fair, ful highland ceremonial dress. The bride, dark and state-
was altired in white and silver bridal gown with a long train lin-
ed with silver tissue. There was cluster of orange blossoms at her
William Matthews Howes cor robated this statement.
Altras said that he had only a hazj; recollection of the affair, but he was sure the accused ap proached him for a cigarette anda a match. As he did not have any with him, witness refused the request, and was abused; At
There had been a queue at this waist. She wore a Brussels lace that he struck the accused in the particular supply all day. face. The accused left the Bund some cases whole families trudgell-and a rope of pearls, given to and witness walked on with his ed down to the water supply, her by her aunt, Viscountess friends. The next thing he knew which came from an iron pipe
Tredegar. he was hit by a large piece of and was normally used in connec-maids in dresses of clinging white Accompanied by eight brides- stone on the shoulder and a few tion with building operations. seconds after by one on the head,
In
the
, fact that the woman who thus saved the music halls holds the stage for inspiration for his love than I plaint, but from Romney Lock shoulder blade and a broken head.ham Recreation Ground, where tableau before the 390 guests at
his life has been the direct means a quarter of an hour, and is
the wedding ceremony.
At Shepperton it was stated that suade him to find a more worthy there was no reason at all for com- He had sustained a broken left took their utensils to the Syden- bridal party formed a striking
In one part of Fenge people georgette edged, with silver.
I said, had seen too much, and had the world, I can say from my ex-Bund, Altras admitted that he borrow supplies of water for could be. I was too old for him, came a different tale,
When asked if he had been water was available. "As a man who has been all over drinking before he went fo. the
Doctors in some of bringing it të a'tragic end. plauded because he is perfect in his
cases had to When
a reputation that might hurt him. the French Government part. I had to hold the stage of
"Yet he held on, certain that in prelence and from what I have seen had had some simshu.
making medicines. granted, in 1925, an amnesty to all life for twenty-four hours a daytime he would break down what he that the order was necessary,” de- The accused got very excited at milltary desertera, Grappe was able and the penalty for failure in my deemed simply capricious indiff-clared the lock-keeper.
the statement that he approach- He added that during the week-ended the complainant for '& cigar- erence. How ardently he pleaded But he was not the same Paul "My voice, my walk, my gestures, for a sign that his affection might prople sat on the side of the lock ette, and vigorously denied doing Grappe who returned to his devot-and my awful awkwardness inkindle an answering flame! ed wife.
"Had he but known near I was to weeping
to resume his normal life as a man. part was death.
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but was
FAMOUS-ROYAL CASTLE
has
A new record was made at the
After leaving the gallery, where' temporary altar had been crest- ed, the bride and bridegroom sign- ed the register in``the billiards- room, which was used as a vestry.
Mrs. Sarah Coe, of Hospital-road, Once more the former royal and watched boate go through, and any such thing. He admitted skirts-any one of these things
castle of the Hohenzollerns in Ber- Bury St. Edmurids. Suffolk. how he could truthfully say that some throwing the stones, The tremendous strain of his might serve to betray me..
often of the men were far from being most emphatic about having been lin, after having slumbered for been presented with a framed photo- most difficult and dangerous game "My voice would have given
hit in the face by the complainant over a decade in gloomy darkness, tograph of the King, from whom as he pleaded, how tortur decently dressed., of bluff, the constant fear that the
stands forth at night in a brilliant she has received a congratulatory me away at once, so I began to Jed by remorse for the part
Mr W. J. Vague, the lock-keeper first for no reason at all. Just slip might reveal his real
speak always in a whisper, and which I was being forced to play. at East Molesey, said that the way
The Registrar: I find you. blaze of 100 lighted windows, letter on her 100th birthday an Identity and expose him to the
developed a gentle, nervous little I hated myself at times; there were men and women came through the guilty of assault, but owing to the The picturesque illumination, re-niversary, and she has also received dreaded penalty of military law,
fact that you acted under pro- calling former days of imperialis 100 new shillings subscribed by the cough, which was sufficient to moments when I grew sickened at lock was absolutely indecent. had made him a nervous wreek. suggest to anyone who heard me the magnitude of my deception."
"The men are just as bad as the Vocation, I am going to be lenient tic splendour, was declded upon by corporation and inhabitants of Eury "I feel that I do not properly that I had throat trouble.
with you, and bind you over the Prussian ministry of fine arta St. Edmunds.. But worse was to come. In the girls," he added. "If I see them belong to either sex," he wrote at "In this way my whispering did gay night resorts of Paris Grappe coming through the lock in bathing in the sum of $100. If you are people an after-business opportun- to keep the peace for six months, for the twofold purpose, of giving the time, “but stand, some way be-not excite suspicion. I had al and many heetle adventures. tween the two. I am unfitted at ready pierced my ears, and
costumes I tell them to cover them assaulted by anybody you have no ity of visiting the castle's histori-Lamelly (South Wales) Steel Com- "I spent my life," Grappe con- selves."
right to take the law.. into your cal interior, and the exhibition of pany's sheet mills galvanising de- present to do men's work and to wore a showy pair of earrings, fessed, "as a woman who finds no Mr. Vague admitted that if they own hands, and this might have applied arts there installed and of portment when a workman share their ordinary interests. It which dangled prettily enough
interest in men in a physical refused to obey he would not have resulted in your being here on a getting off effectively at night the duced 27 tons in a shift, two toss is women's work that I can de best behind my artificial curls."
But men interested me the power to refuse them adaiission, more serious charge.
building's monumental beauty, more than the previous record. now, but I must do it no longer. EMPLOYED AMONG GIRLS, in other ways. I learnt a great, "Even now I am unable to see As time went on Grappe mastered deal, about them—their strength | where my future road should be his natural disadvantages.
and their weaknesses, how mea I have not yet reached a time when learned the use of massage and treat women in the intimacy of I can take decisions on the point, face creams, grew his hair so that
flirtations and romances when] for I am worn out mentally and it reached to his waist, and eventu- pose and pretence are thrown to physically by a long effort. Jally became so perfect in his acting the winds and the man himself "One cannot adopt a second per-of feminine ways and mannerisms stands revealed in his Impulses aanality for ten years and then that he took up employment among
and instincts. suddenly drop it and return into girls in a workshop as an em the macistrom of passions and broidereas and dressmaker. None against the advances of too per conflicting Interests in which menjguessed his secret.
•
now
"He
sense.
"But I was always on'my guard
sistent admirers, many of whom
live their lives without feeling any On Ane days Grappe, with scores dubbed me 'Suzanne the Chaste.' atrali."
of other women, did his needlework "The advances made to me dur Unfortunately for Paul Grappe, while sitting under the trees ning these nights of revelry by pas he sought relief in alcohol. He the Bois de Boulogne.
sionate men of the type so com- drank to excess and thrashed his "I did like the rest," he said,monly met in Montmartre often wife as a habit. Sometimes in his "and soon noticed that men of tired me, and it was a relief to get runken savagery, he would even varying ages passing by gave inaway sometimes in the company of rala heavy blows on his little son,terested glances in my direction, a clean run,healthy-minded-young nged three. At last one of these seeking flirtations..
man, whose intentions, while ro Acenes had a fatal result.
"By this time I had grown to live mantic, were honest and sincere." As usual, Grappe eame home my part, and half-unconsciously I One of these misguided young drunk, and, over an insignificant found myself looking and hoping lovers actually proposed marriage pretext, began to quarrel with his for these admiring glances, which, to Suzanne, and it was with wife. Departing from her usual whatever else they did, confirmed difficulty that he was eventually custom, ahe.struck back when be my confidence in my disguise. persuaded that his advances. WEIG struck her, returning blow for blow! "I learned as I sewed during the useless”. Grappe was too drunk to light auc-Bunny afternoons in the Bois de “You must know that I have cessfully, so, fully dressed, he Boalogne how multifarious and no love for men," he was told. "All ithrew himself on the bed and fell varied are the temptations which your earnest pleadings will he ma
nto a heavy sleep.
may assail a woman.
much waste of time. You can Towards midnight the little boy, was invited for motor rides in only talk to me, for I will let no who had been alling for some days, ners, with unlimited champagne
luxurious limousinés. Rich din man caress me.” began to cry. This awakened
And as the most asto Grappe, and, furious, he began to were to be mine if I could eat then man-woman masquera insult his wife, telling her to sitting in some secluded corner of times lived through a sence the child. As she refused of the numerous garden re adventured with wo
e struck her violently, Then ad
staurants, with's male admirer's until circumstances the child, terrified by this specta-arm about my waist and his kissed sible for him to end cic, redoubled his cries, Grappe on my lips.
deception.
made for the baby in order to DELICATE. FLIETATIONS. . It is a tragic: refle
strike him. The mother, driven “I soon became known among the amazing deception frantic by the fear that her hus frequenters of the Bois. I had Paul Grappe's life band might seriously injure, the many male adesirera there, of many time sowed the reoda child, sofed a revolver and put ages, and indulged in a score of which ultimately brou two bullets in her husband's head, defiësto Airtations.
tragic endi
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