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...some minutes he sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, for perjury in swearing falsely to her marriage declaration, famed "Captain Barker, D. S. O.," the transvestite, Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Arkell-Smith, who for five years masqueraded successfully as a male War hero, who eloped with and married Miss Alfreda Howard, a chemist's simple daughter (TIME, March...
Last week "Captain Barker" was arrested again. Her offense before the law was not that she had worn men's clothes, or even that she had persuaded Miss Alfreda Emma Howard of Littlehampton, Sussex, to marry her, but on a common charge' of perjury, for she 'had falsely sworn in high court that she was "Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker," when she was really Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Smith, mother...
...area as a Red Cross nurse and ambulance driver. In 1918 she married an Australian officer, Colonel Harold Arkell Smith, who begot her two children. Some five years later she discovered her tendency to transvestism, yielded to it, renounced home and family, courted and married Druggist's Daughter Alfreda Emma Howard, moved to the congenial military centre of Andover, and found apparent happiness...
Even more remarkable was the statement of Mrs. Barker, the onetime Miss Alfreda Emma Howard, a country lass of Littlehampton, Sussex. She said last week that Transvestite Barker courted her "as any young man would"; and the Register of Brighton Parish Church reveals that they were married as man and wife on Nov. 14, 1923. "I am dazed, stunned!" exclaimed Mrs. Barker. "In our six years of married life I never once suspected that dear Victor was a woman too!" Mrs. Barker's father, a venerable druggist, added his affirmations of astonishment...