The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-11
JERSEY GIRL IN
ENGLISH JAIL FOR
SUFFRAGE RIOT
Miss Paul, Quaker Miss, Con-
yerted to Cause Stoned
Mayors Banquet.

MOORESTOWN, Nov. 11.-Friends of
Miss Alice Paul, the highly-educated
young woman of this city, who was
yesterday sentenced to a month at hard
labor for participation in the suf-
fragette demonstration at the Lord
Mayors banquet in London, Tuesday
night, fear that excessive study has
upset her equilibrium.
Miss Paul has been closely associated
with settlement work both here and
abroad since her graduation from
Swarthmore College and the University
of Pennsylvania, and she became IN
terested in the suffrage movement IN
London while attending the WOOD
brooke School, for which she had won
a scholarship. She was arrested about
a month ago on a similar charge, u
after spending one night in a jail was
permitted to go, as a mistake was
acknowledged by the officers.
Miss Paul has been associated with
Mrs. Pankhurst, the militant leader OF
the English suffragettes, who IS now
lecturing in this country. The month
in Jail to which the gifted and renned
young woman will be subjected Will
sause much anxiety and pain to her
mother, relatives n friends here ana
at her home. They express wonder
that she should have dared to accom-
pany the other young woman to the
Guild Hall, where the banquet was
spread. and throw bricks through the
windows. They never considered MISS
Paul as one who would exhibit such
traits, since she was carefully reared
in the Society Of Friends.
Miss Paul, who is only "a years Old,
comes from distinguished Quaker IN
cestry. Her grandfather on her moth
er's side was the late Judge Parry,
owner of the once famous Pomona
Nurseries on the Observation-Disclosures
road, in his day probably the wealth.
lest and most influential man in Burl-
ington county and widely known all
cver the United States as a horticnl-
turist. Miss Paul's father, the late
William M. Paul, was a widely known
Burlington county business man, vas
one Of the organizers of Paul Brothers,
wholesale shoe merchants of Philadel-
phia, and al the time of his death
president of the Moorestown National
Bank and the Burlington County Safe
Deposit and Trust Company.
Miss Paul attended the Friends High
School here, where she displayed
marked aptitude, and in 1901 won a
scholarship to Swarthmore College.
She graduated from Swarthmore in
1905 with an A. B. degree. h en-
tered settlement work in Philadelphia
and later went to New York. Return
ing, entered the University of Penn
svlvania, graduating in 1907 with her
A. M. degree.
While in New York Miss Paul re-
ceived a scholarship from Woodbrooke
School, an institution managed by
Friends, near Birmingham, England,
and sailed for Great Britain about two
and a half years ago. After spending
a year at Woodbrooke studying social
and religious subjects Miss Paul left
for London, where she entered the Uni
versity of London, taking up a course
of economies. Last summer she be-
came interested in the suffrage move
ment largely through Mrs. Pankhurst.
Miss Paul has been interested in
charitable and religious work, being a
prominent and active member of the
ItQIS EIiCDQo AooOCldtfOI, lit SiiCo1
ter Monthly and HaddoEfield Quar-
terly Meetings and is a member of the
philanthropic committee of the Phila-
delphia Yearly Meetings of Friends.
At her beautiful home. "Paulsdale,"
Mrs. Tacie Paul, mother of the young
woman, is much agitated over her
second arrest. Its awful" said Mrs
Paul. 'if Alice has to stay in Jail a
month. I am afraid the girl has let
her enthusiasm for the cause run away
with her judgment. When she was ar
rested the first time 1 did not worry.
as I read in the papers that she was
released the next morning, but this
seems different.
alice was particularly close to Mrs.
Pankhurst, who is now lecturing in
America, and l believe it was largely
through Mrs. Pankhurst's influence
she became interested in the suffragarte
movement ! heard Mrs. Pankhurst
speak the other day in Philadelphia.
Iut did not have an opportunity TO have
any words with her. In Boston the
other night my other daughter, Helen,
who is a student at Wellesley College, |
lad a long talk with Mrs. Pankhurst, !
who told her much about Alice and her
enthusiasm in the suffrage movement"