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I may also mention the
case (briefly recorded in the _Lancet_, February 22, 1884) of a
person called John Coulter, who was employed for twelve years as
a laborer by the Belfast Harbor Commissioners. When death
resulted from injuries caused in falling down stairs, it was
found that this person was a woman. She was fifty years of age,
and had apparently spent the greater part of her life as a man.
When employed in early life as a manservant on a farm, she had
married her mistress's daughter. The pair were married for
twenty-nine years, but during the last six years lived apart,
owing to the "husband's" dissipated habits. No one ever suspected
her sex. She was of masculine appearance and good muscular
development. The "wife" took charge of the body and buried it.
A more recent case of the same kind is that of "Murray Hall," who
died in New York in 1901. Her real name was Mary Anderson, and
she was born at Govan, in Scotland. Early left an orphan, on the
death of her only brother she put on his clothes and went to
Edinburgh, working as a man.


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