Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1906 — Mystery of a Woman’s Voice. [ARTICLE]

Mystery of a Woman’s Voice.

The remarkable instance of a woman possessing a man's baritone voice, with all the masculine qualities is just now attracting attention among psychological and medical experts at New York. Miss Edna Murray, whose home lormerly was Fort Worth, Texng, has come under the observation of Prof. Hyslop, the psychic expert; Dr. G. W. Colby, a throat specialist. and Albert Gerard-Tbiers. a voice culturist. Miss Murray says that she never sang a note up to the ‘.ime she was 20 and there was nothing peculiar or nothing about her voice different from ordinary girls. She had learned, however, to play the piano and was accompanying a young man with a baritone voice one day when the idea Occurred to her that she could sing the song in a lower voice than he could, and she did, to the astonishment of both. At the same time she says that her handwriting changed from a fine feminine hand to that of a man. She still has a feminine talking voice.