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Brooklyn Today
ON THIS DAY in 1911, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Man Figured as Woman in Divorce Suit ‘Plant’: Wore Long Black Hair, Which Fell Over Shoulders, When Raiders Entered Room.”
The article focused on an elaborate divorce scheme in which a man posed as a woman to secure evidence for a divorce suit.
“The unusual allegation that the correspondent named in a wife’s application for divorce is a man, and hence could not be a correspondent, was made this morning before Justice Crane in the Supreme Court in Mrs. Alfhild Marie Krarup Madsen’s suit for an absolute divorce from Hans Christian Madsen, a chemist,” the Eagle reported.