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She is said
to have died of cancer of the breast. (I quote from an account,
which appears to be reliable, contained in the _Weekly
Scotsman_, February 9, 1901.)
Another case, described in the London papers, is that of
Catharine Coome, who for forty years successfully personated a
man and adopted masculine habits generally. She married a lady's
maid, with whom she lived for fourteen years. Having latterly
adopted a life of fraud, her case gained publicity as that of the
"man-woman."
In 1901 the death on board ship was recorded of Miss Caroline
Hall, of Boston, a water-color painter who had long resided in
Milan. Three years previously she discarded female dress and
lived as "husband" to a young Italian lady, also an artist, whom
she had already known for seven years. She called herself "Mr.
Hall" and appeared to be a thoroughly normal young man, able to
shoot with a rifle and fond of manly sports. The officers of the
ship stated that she smoked and drank heartily, joked with the
other male passengers, and was hail-fellow-well-met with
everyone.


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