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A followup on Jack Hill, the married bartender in Meeker who turned out to be a woman:

It turns out that, for two years before living as a man in Meeker, Helen Hilsher had been living and working as a man in Wiggins. Again, she says she did it because men get more pay and better opportunities.

Hilsher arrived in Denver with Dr. Helen Jones, who she had once lived with. Thanks to a veil and a skirt, she was able to avoid recognition aboard the train. Then, in Denver, she and companions went down the 15th street tracks to avoid reporters enroute to Jones’ home on Emerson Street.

Speaking through the screen door, the doctor said “both girls understood the arrangement perfectly and both had agreed in case of disclosure to tell the story that Miss Slifka told on the witness stand that she did not know of Miss Hilsher’s sex in spite of the fact they had lived together as man and wife. While Hilsher’s motive was financial, Jones said, Slifka sought independence. It was “a matter of convenience.”