Bank", and the heroine of its ruin. Adèle Spitzeder did not suggest masculinity in her physique nor her attire, but she was passionately feminosexual—a thorough Uraniad; and intrigued sexually with all sorts of women and sister-Uraniads. One well-known actress was a regular mistress of the "Bankerin". She drank, smoked, gambled and so on ad libitum, in privacy. The letters from her, read in court at her trial, were eloquent of her sexual affairs, and of her complete moral degeneracy, as also of her masculine head for business. After she had served; her prison-term, Adèle Spitzeder organized an ambulant woman-orchestra (most of its members feminosexuals) which travelled in Europe and America with success. Her later, history is a blank.
Instance: Mascu-
line Travesty
and Moral
Degeneracy:
Vienna.
In March, 1908, was disclosed in Vienna, by arrest and a police-court trial, a notable instance of the moral degeneracy of an Uraniad, united with vigorous bodily masculinity, much impudence, remarkable talent for shamming and a notable shrewdness in whatever related to victimizing superiour dupes. A certain "Prince Egon" X—, apparently a man in the early thirties, of brilliant social address and attractive physique, had been on the edge of smart commercial society in the city for some time; presenting himself as engaged in a law-suit against his family, for the recovery of his rights in a large estate. "Prince Egon" borrowed important sums for his affairs, from various friendly parties; led a life discreetly luxurious; and finally won the heart of a young lady of excellent family—the engagement being announced, with full consent of the parents. Suddenly "Prince Egon" was taken into custody as Margaret Erb, a woman of manlike physique and perfectly manlike manners, forty-six years old. She had been an international swindler for a long time past; had been incarcerated as a patient in an insane-asylum; and was sought for by criminal and medical
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