Claim: On the night of November 14, 1917, known as the "Night of Terror", the superintendent of the Occoquan Workhouse (a former prison complex in Lorton, Virginia), 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: The Lorton Reformatory, also known as the Lorton Correctional Complex, is a former prison complex in Lorton, Virginia, established in 1910 for the District of Columbia, United States. The complex began as a prison farm called the Occoquan Workhouse for non-violent offenders serving short sentences. 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.