Will focus on the unique criminal whose case created a furor in 1920 in Sydney, Australia.The trial of Harry Crawford for the murder of his first wife, Annie Brikett probably would not be a sensation if it were not for the fact that the real name of the murderer - Eugenie Falleni, and he was born of a woman.
about the early life of Eugenie information bit.We know that she was born in Florence, after which her family immigrated to New Zealand in 1877.But they did not stay Eugenia.As lively and restless, Falleni childhood dressed as a boy, and when she got a sailor on the ship, no one suspected that in fact she is a woman.
However, during one of the flights Eugenie was not only exposed, but returned to port pregnant.In 1898, she went with the ship in the port of Newcastle, South Wales with the girl-child in her arms.Leaving a child under the care of some woman in Sydney, Falleni decided to present itself to the world as Harry Leo Crawford.
Harry Crawford had a reputation for rough and silent man.He tried many professions.He worked as a janitor, laborer in a meat factory, hotel, laundry, etc.
In 1912, he met with the widow Annie Brikett and her 9-year-old son.Harry began to care for her.He told Annie that he was the son of the captain of a merchant ship, he was 38 years old, and he is also a widower.February 19, 1913 in the Methodist church wedding took place Harry Crawford and Annie Brikett.It remains unclear, Annie knew that her husband was not a man, but according to the testimony of neighbors couple quarreled frequently.
In 1917, Annie has disappeared.Crawford did not make any statements.He simply said that his wife had left him.
September 19, 1919 in Canterbury widower and a mechanical engineer Harry L. Crawford married Elizabeth Allison.The relevant documents of the groom's parents were listed owner Harry Crawford and Elizabeth Falleni.
Bad news for Harry arrived in 1920.More October 2, 1917 in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood was found charred female body.The identity of the deceased could be identified only after three years.The body of Chatswood belonged to the legitimate spouse Harry Crawford.Immediately after his arrest on suspicion of murdering his wife July 5, 1920 Harry Crawford asked to put him in a cell for women.This revelation "man-woman" caused a sensation.Press relished details.
At preliminary hearings the defendant was in menswear.However, during the trial the killer was sitting in the dock in a dress.Falleni accused of committing "sexual fraud" and murder to conceal fraud.
Eugenie Falleni was found guilty and sentenced to death.On appeal the sentence, nevertheless, commuted to life hard labor.After working for 11 years in an institution for women in Long Bay, in 1931, came Flleni free.She lived in Paddington, under the name Jean Ford and worked as a maid.
June 9, 1938 in Oxford Street Falleni hit by a car and died of her injuries the next day.
rumors about the identity Falleni not stop even her death.Yet in 1920, her daughter stated that her mother always dressed like a man.Since then, doctors, psychiatrists, journalists, genetics, dramatists and historians have tried to understand Falleni.They are variously called her: hermaphrodite sexual pervert, gay, transsexual and gender dysphoria patient.
Eugenie Falleni loudly protested his innocence in court, but did not explain what caused her to live as a man.
Some researchers, in addition to sex and genetic disorders, perceive and quite prosaic reasons.The violence on the ship and the subsequent pregnancy, but also the fact that in the early twentieth century in Sydney women earned half as much as men.The very Falleni said after being caught, she could never live alone, I left the woman at the time.
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