No title.

Summary

An applicant for a warrant for fraud against a gambling house in St. James's mentions that he can "bring forward parties who had been plundered of their money, and in particular the following recent instance. A lady of his acquaintance, from curiosity, or from some other less pardonable motive, having a strong desire to see the interior of a gambling-house, had the consummate folly as well as indelicacy to disguise herself in male attire, and to obtain the entree of the establishment kept by the individuals against whom he sought to obtain a warrant. She was soon marked out by the confederates, who, however, had not any suspicion of her sex, and having been prevailed upon to sit down to the table, she in a very short time was stripped of upwards of 1,500l."

Full Title

6 Nov 1833. No title. Times p. 4 c. C.

Publication

Full Record

Date

6 November 1833

Cross-dressing activity

Amusement

Locations

LondonView on map

Primary source topic

Dressed as a man; Entry to proscribed space; Stratagem

Item format

News report

Motive

Curiosity

Discovery of cross-dressing

Legal proceeding

Attire

Male garb

Social rank

Gentry

Stated Motive (Protagonist)

No

Sex Perceived by Others

Male

Sex Perceived by Recorder

Female

Racialization

Unmarked

People Mentioned in This Record

• Female Gambler(Subject of study)Mentions