Claim: On the night of November 14, 1917, known as the "Night of Terror", the superintendent of the Occoquan Workhouse, W.H. Whittaker, ordered the nearly forty guards to brutalize the suffragists; thus they threw Lewis into a dark cell and smashed her head against an iron bed, knocking her out.
Evidence: On the night of November 14, 1917, known as the "Night of Terror", the superintendent of the Occoquan Workhouse, W.H. Whittaker, ordered the nearly forty guards to brutalize the suffragists. They threw Dora Lewis into a dark cell and smashed her head against an iron bed, which knocked her out.