New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-24
Odd How Witnesses Differ.

1t was odd, 10y the way, how the recoi-
lection Of the witnesses differed as 10
what the audience said 20 Miss Malone
and her electors.
Miss Malone CiGu't hear any one caiI
"put her OUT and she did hear several
tell her 10 stand up and put her question.
But according to Mr.. Senft the whole
audience, and especially the women
Joined in a mad demand TO have the
sufragette put out.
After Andrew Mclean, who was chalr-
man Of the Saturday night meeting, hau
testified in moderate and courtiy terms
that the audience became very excited
after Miss Malone asked her question, ana
after officer Dubois and Lieutenant VOID
OF the l46th Precinct, had described now
Magistrate Kempner, who was there toiu
them TO arrest Miss Malone, and how she
was marched through the streets 10 the
station house. the suffragette herself was
called TO the stand
mild suffragette she looked to be- soIt
Of voice, and when her lawyer desireu
her 10 state her age she hedged IN as
feminine a manner as possible.
Answer the question" commanded the
magistrate.
II believe" she said, that was
born in 1885"
Mid as she was she proved quite equal
tc the magistrates questions
Did YOU 60 there wilfully to disturb
that meeting?" he demanded
81 didn't disturb the meeting she saiu
quietly, with an emphasis on the i.
Then the magistrate made her describe
all the former occasions when she had
fired woman suffrage questions at political
speakers
DO YOU mean to say" he asked or one
meeting, that It took five policemen 10 put
you out Of that hall"'
Miss Malone cast her eyes down upon
the suffrage badge upon her breast.
They seemed to think It did, she sara
gently
The meeting two weeks ago in Carnegie
Hall, where the candidate for Vice-Presi-
dent on the Progressive party ticket was
the speaker, was the only one, Miss Ma
lone said, where she suffered bodily bruises
ir being put out
Her lawyer, James r. Kohler, asked her
II she ever carried bricks or stones OF
basebals" into a meeting. She said she
didn't She Just asked candidates Tor
Office What about woman suffrage ana
II she got an answer, yes or no, she sat
down.
II she wasn't answered she kept on
asking until she was put out.
Miss Malone Explains Purpose.
MY purpose is to make II a political
issue" she said.
But Magistrate Kempner wouldn't take
II that way at all.
What YOU did at the Academy of Music
on Saturday night" he told her severely,
was not only unlawful but, in my Judg-
ment In very bad taste. At the risk OF
creating panic riot. you persisted In
disturbing that meeting. Your course Is
mat OF wilful and malicious lawbreaker.
You have proceeded. arbitrarily and braz-
emily. to eide roughshod over laws and
customs
You disgraced yourself and injured
your cause. If there we're refined and
cultured suffragists Of your sex In that
audience they must have felt ashamed.
You are one OF the scatter-brained'
ioose-tongued. ill-mannered viragoes whose
course retards the suffrage cause. as do the
actions Of the window smashers in Eng
land. To such as you is due the increase
In the number Of dangerous cranks, yes
and the bullets In the bodies OF our Gov
ernors and Presidents"
Then Miss Malone drew long breath