The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-06
.NEEKS0F TORTURE
IN ENGLISH PRISON.
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Y Dung American suffragctte
Tells of Her Inhuman
Treatment.
HAD DISTURBED MEETING
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As Premier Was Speaking Miss
Paul Cried, "Votcs for
Women"
HAD DISTURBED MEETING
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New York. February 5.--Miss Alice
Paul, the young American girl, who.
while studying economic and social
conditions In England. was arrested
seven times and imprisoned three
times because Of her activity In the
cause of woman's suffrage told the
story OF her arrest and experiences in
prison in an interview at the head
quarters of the Equality League Of
Self-Supporting Women. in this city.
to-day.
For a time she has had enough OF
England. where she has been for two
and half years. Instead, she is
going back to the University of Penn
sylvania to complete her studies of
economics and sociology. She has only
been out of prison two months. and
her face still shows signs OF the
severity Of her confinement.
Forced to Emf.
ut was torture to be forced to eat
she said. Twice Il day for the month
that I spent in Holloway prison, in
London. I was strapped and bound
round with sheets until could not
move a muscle. Then another sheet
was bound around my throat to keep
my neck rigid, and the torture COM
Z, menced.
and as thick as my thumb, was forced
| through my nostrlls and the liquid
| food poured in. The pain was intense.
but l would not give in"
To prevent political meetings and
| banquets being interrupted by suffra-
gettes, wooden walls nine feet high are
built. AS Miss Paul could not climb
the barricade around the Guild Hall,
where the Lord Mayors banquet was
held November IA, she and her friend.
Miss Brown, disguised themselves as
charwomen and presented themselves
for work at s o'clock in the morning.
The password we gave" said Miss
Paul, was the one word, Kitchen and
we were quickly passed in. Then we
hunted around until we found a glass
door leading to the balcony that over
looked the bandueting hall. We stayed
behind that door undisturbed until 9
o'clock at night, and as Premier AS
quith began TO talk ! took OFF my
shoe, smashed the glass in the door
and shouted: we want votes for wo-
men,. Instantly there was an uproar.
Mr.. Asquith stopped and the band be-
gan playing. The guests, many of
whom were Cabinet members and titled
personages. jumped up and began to
hunt for US. They seemed to think we
were on the roof and to watch all
those Englishmen, in their dress
clothes, climbing on the roof, when
we were right near them, was the
funniest thing / ever saw during my
stay in the country"
Sent TO Prison.
When the two women We're discov-
cred they were arrested. The next
! morning they We're arraigned. charged
with breaking a window and were
| fined s35. or, in default, a months i'm
| prisonment. Refusing to pay, they
I were taken to Holloway prison, and
as the result of their incarceration
and their refusal to eat. Miss Paul was
| i'll for three weeks after her release,
| and Miss Brown is still In an .nvalid's
| home.
| On another occasion Miss Paul was
| arrested for obstructing the police at
Ia political meeting in Trafalgar
Square, and had to serve twelve days
in Holloway prison.
! Miss Paul says she is "just twenty
/ five years old" She does not talk
about the time when women shall have
votes. She considers they have them
| now The only question to be settled
is the matter of recording them.
1.-The last election Is a victory for
u.s." she added. "Asquith has been
very backward for the simple reason
/. that he had such large majority
TO work with that he thought he could
do as he pleased. Now the situation
| is changed, and he has to depend upon
the Labor and Irish parties to carry
| through his measures. It would be
q very serious loss to him If Liberal