New-York tribune., 1912-04-06
NO PANKHURST INVASION
Women's Clubs Scout Report
That Christabe| Is in New York.
ARREST HERE UNLIKELY
suffragettes Discuss Possibility
of Police Activity if She
Should Arrive.

We'll IL Christabel Paukhurst IL in Ne"
York City. that means the Eaglsh Iar'I'-
ment has suddenly passed the votes LOT
women bill. and the fair leader ot 'he
suffragettes is here to celebrate because
never. never. never viii size leave the
scene of battle until the victory II won
That is what Mrs. John Winters Brannon
had to say I'm regard 10 the rumor that
surged through the city Yesterday TO the
effect that Chrstabel vas here. Under an
assumed name and thick black veil. the
leader Of the English militants, who has
eluded Scotland Yard detectives ever since
the last window breaking party. was re-
ported to have landed irom the Maurctania
last night had a conference with her sister
Sylvia, who was returning to the frontier
and then vanished.
Miss Pankhurst is not here said Mrs
Brannon She never mas been here and
she never will be here until the vote is
won If YOU knew her as well ds ! az
you'd know she would no more think OF
leaving England than a general would
of leaving the battlefield in the midst Of
hot fight. Her whole heart. mind and
soul are in this work
Besides il she were here, there would
he 70 reason to hide her I'm sure she
could not he cNtraGited. When Mrs. Pank-
hurst came over here the first time we took
pains to find out If she could be prevented
from landing as an undesirable alien. The
State Department informed us that, as she
would be a political offender, they could not
interfere The case Of Christabel may be
somewhat different. but | believe she would
be safe here.
However. just before her sister. sylvia.
sailed away on Tuesday she showed me
letter she had just received from Christa-
bel from the other side
At the Womans Political Union, No. 10
East 18th street. the hotbed of sympathy
for English militancy. there was mrth and
amazement all day long.
1T Is the most preposterous tale | ever
heard" said Mrs. Arthur f. Townsend VINO
has marched in London parades behlnd
Miss Pankhurst and knows her like a SIS
ter. ANY one who has ever seen her can
only shrek with Joy at the idea OF recogniZ-
ing her by her 'aggressive-lookinS face and
overhanging black eyebrows, as this per
son saws he did 1t Is lucky he was going
out of town for several weeks, for he would
be made unhappy here, I'm afraid. AS Tor
Miss Pankhurst being beetle-browed. why
gracious me. she looks more Ike Daoy
two years old than anything else. She mas
the most exquisite, arched eyebrows you
ever saw and soft delicate expression
She looks much younger and sWeeter thdn
her sister. Sylvia. and Americans have seen
enough OF her to know that even she ISM
80 terribly ferocious I'm appearance.
Rheta Childe Dorr. the suffrage writer
and orator, dropped in just then 10 sosS'p
with her cronies, for she. too was JUS.
bursting with merrlment at the IDEA Oh
Christabels fierce eyebrows.
ANY one who had ever seen her at all
she cried. would remember those loVely
evebrovs. her greatest beauty. Ana she
q blonde pink and white little thing tnat
ro one would ever suspect. who didn |
r,or. how, fierce and clever she can be
A. the other suffrage headquarters in the
CITY every leader swore there was no
ChrIstabel hidden away in a waste paper
basket. though they wished there were
..Ive'ro crazy TO see her. She must ne a
dear" they chorused.
woman lawyer. questioned as 10
whether Miss Pankhurst would be III udh-
cor Of arrest if she were discovered here'
was unwilling to risk her legal reputation
nv saving oThand whethey she could be
,,,radited or not. She was Of tho opinion
not. however.
The anti-sIffragists of this city were just
as sure she could be- and seemed, i'm ta't
ratbor disappointed that the suhrageue
had not already been told 10 turn her PACK
IN tho Statue of Liberty and go home.
"Orr organizat ton in England has re-
coivod an opinion from Sir Edward Clarke
the eminent iurist." said Mrs. Arthur Mur-
ra,. Dodge. president of the National AS
snciation Opposed 70 Woman Suffrage ~"
contends that Miss Pankhurst Is guilty
under the malicious damage act or
course We do not want her 10 land IN TINS
countrv and preach militant methoos'
Whether the immigration laws in TINS
country would forbid her landing, am NOT
certain. but know this When Mrs Con
dor.Sandarson was here she said publicly
that she had come I'm by way or Iaiih"d
hocouso tho law forbade her landing in this
co,ntrv. as she had served = term IN
prison"
william Williams United States 'ommls-
sioncr Of Immigration In this city. SAID
"The case has not yet been called ohie'al!