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- Description is exactly "Though her birth year is recorded as 1909, this female inmate had allegedly committed bigamy and adultery prior to her institutionalization in 1922. The information listed under "Additional History" reveals eugenicists' tendency to conflate sexual nonconformity with feeble-mindedness. The social worker writes, "[S]he seemed crafty and sly, and a menace to less intelligent girls. Sexual and homosexual solicits." Having enticed another female inmate to run away with her, "She tore off her dress and threw it in the river," presumably so she could pass as a man."
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