A Penchant For Breeches, Morning Herald (Article, 1838)
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A PENCHANT FOR BREECHES.--On Saturday, at Baltimore, a young person offered a horse for sale. The appearance of the seller was very effeminate and excited much attention. Having succeeded in effecting a sale, the money was about being paid over, when a stranger arrived, and claimed the horse as his property. The [vendor] was taken before a magistrate, and the case proved; and, on subsequent examination, the offender turned out to be one of the gentler sex, who was very appropriately a native of Yorkshire, (England) a horse-stealing county in which Mr. Richard Turpin was born. She stated that she had unsexed her habiliments for three years, during which time she had worked as a laborer on the canal.
