WXDA Record #1123
No title.
10 March 1801
Summary
"The Felon who made his escape out of prison naked, is facetiously said, in a provincial paper, to have passed the Jailor disguised like a woman."
Full Title
10 Mar 1801. No title. Times p. 3 c. A.
Publication
Times of London(Times)
Full Record
- Date
- 10 March 1801
- Provisional Category
- Criminal
- Cross-dressing activity
- Crime
- Primary source topic
- Dressed as a woman; Escape in disguise
- Item format
- News report; Jest
- Motive
- Escape
- Attire
- Female garb
- Source
- A provincial paper (unknown).
- Gender Manifestation
- The "disguise" is not defined and would normally be women's clothes; the jest here seems to be that when "naked" this male "Felon" appeared to be a "woman," which is either a joke at the expense of the individual's physical engenderment or the perception of the "Jailor."
- Stated Motive (Protagonist)
- No
- Sex Perceived by Others
- Female
- Sex Perceived by Recorder
- Male
- Report Scope
- Central
- Column(s)
- A
- Page Numbers
- 3