Death was due to advanced tuberculosis of the lungs,
hastened by excessive drinking and smoking.
Ellen Glenn, _alias_ Ellis Glenn, a notorious swindler, who came
prominently before the public in Chicago during 1905, was another
"man-woman," of large and masculine type. She preferred to dress
as a man and had many love escapades with women. "She can fiddle
as well as anyone in the State," said a man who knew her, "can
box like a pugilist, and can dance and play cards."
In Seville, a few years ago, an elderly policeman, who had been
in attendance on successive governors of that city for thirty
years, was badly injured in a street accident. He was taken to
the hospital and the doctor there discovered that the "policeman"
was a woman. She went by the name of Fernando Mackenzie and
during the whole of her long service no suspicion whatever was
aroused as to her sex. She was French by birth, born in Paris in
1836, but her father was English and her mother Spanish. She
assumed her male disguise when she was a girl and served her
time in the French army, then emigrated to Spain, at the age of
35, and contrived to enter the Madrid police force disguised as a
man.
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