The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-27
American Girl Tells of Cruel Treatment
 In British Prisor
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 experiences:
 By Alice M. Wright, Albany, N. Y.)
 During the entire time that was in Holloway prison I was refused all one outside of the Jail. It was not until April 19 that I was finally aI- lowed to write to my mother and even then I was compelled to keep that letter for mailing until I was releas- ed from prison, on Thursday
 While I was working at my pro- fession in Paris. on March 6. read that the militant suffragettes in Lon don were breaking windows in or der to emphasize their displeasure over the shameful way in which the premier and his ministers had violat- ed theiR duties and had refused even to permit parliament to consider the question of equal suffrage. Desiring to participate in the movement, hurried to London and volunteered my services. My motives are easily explained. I simply desired to share able treatment of the women's de- mands. Our cause is not merely na- tional. it is universal.
 seWe commenced our protest in America against the taxation without representation with tea and therefore IL seemed reaSOudDl6 IOI us to COul- mence with glass in England. On March A. accompanied by two suffra- gette companions who were armed with hammers and stone, I went to the Kensington postoffice. They broke the windows there. Although carrying it as an evidence of my pro- test against existing conditions. I did not wish, personally. to destroy British property as I was not a Brit ish subject.
 After being arraigned in court and sentenced I, with eighteen others, was conveyed to Holloway in the Black Maria, the prison van. Enroute we sang the votes for women song set to the Marseillaise.
 After the entrance preliminaries we were hurried into cells. We conn gettes by means of brown paper mega phones through the window gratings. In accordance with a pre-arranged plan for the first week I did only the briefest daily exercise and refused either to attend chapel or to work
 Later I, with others, did some light work such as sewing and knit ting and thereby I earned the remis- sion of the sixth of my sentence. I made an American flag from hand
 
 using dye from book cover and the blue field from portions of my cloth- ing. I placed only six stars in the corner instead of the usual 48, one each for the suffrage states, Utah. Colorado. wyoming, Idaho, Washing ton and California. Unfortunately one of the wardresses saw 1t and confis- cated it.
 .'The prison discipline was reason able, the officials for the most part acting in a considerate manner as far as they could in consideration of their duties Naturally, there are prison rules imposed by a tyrannical government that cannot be set aside by the officials. But in many cases they winked at hard labor clauses in certain sentences and also made no protest against suffragettes who were a able to purchase food from the out side sharing that food with their fel- lows who had been condemned to rigid prison discipline of hard labor and the prison fare. I think, how ever. that the real reason for this was that many of the women were secret ly fasting.
 s.The general hunger strike, which was participated in by every suffra- gette in the prison, was declared for the purpose of protesting against the refusal to make con- cessions which would give us recogni- tion as political prisoners. On the second afternoon, the forcible feeding