The Extraordinary Investigation.

Summary

As soon as "it was known" "that the deceased was a man", a "dissection" was allowed on Eliza Edward's body. Cause of death: "disease of the lungs". "The liver was much diseased" from drinking. Questions were asked the answers to "which excited the greatest astonishment . . . but the evidence is unfit for publication."  A juror said it was "a most extraordinary case of depravity, and he was of opinion that the body ought not to be buried in the usual way" and others should be warned "from such unparalleled acts of turpitude". A witness claimed that "About 12 or 13 years ago the deceased sometimes passed for a man and sometimes a woman." "She had lately performed on the stage in the country in the principal tragic characters." Several medical students had been disrupting the proceedings and "called the jury a set of humbugs and jackasses."

Full Title

25 Jan 1833. The Extraordinary Investigation. Times p. 3 c. C.

Publication

Full Record

Date

25 January 1833

Provisional Category

Male Wife/Mistress

Cross-dressing activity

Gender transition; Sexual relations

Cross-dressing occupation

Actor