New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-25
MRS. PANKHURST FREED;
HUNGER STRIKE" WINS
Mrs. PethiCk Lawrence Also
Liberated, but Her Husband
Remains in Prison.
He, TOO, NEAR STARVATION
Forcible Feeding, Doctor Finds,
Injuries Action of the Heart
-Sunragist Demonstra-
ion Impending.

Try Transatlantic Wireless to The Tribunel
London. June 24.-Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence
were released from Holloway Prison to-
day after serving a little more than one
month Of their sentences Of nine months.
Roth had been on a food strike for five
days.
Mrs Pankhursts heart, according TO
her doctor. was in such condition that
she could not be forcibly fed, and she
had 10 be released. She is very weak
and even her friends are not allowed to
see her Her daughter is only permit
ted to he with her for a few minutes at
a time.
Mrs. Pethick Lawrence was forcibly
fed on Saturday, after which she became
so sick that she had TO be released to-
day.
Mr.. PethiCk Lawrence is also fasting,
but has not yet been released.
The men supporters of suffrage are ar
ranging a big demonstration in Parlla-
ment Square for July /.
Including Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs.
Lawrence. ten women have been released
from prison since Saturday on account
Of III health due to forcible feeding The
fifty other suffragettes in prison are
continuing the hunger strike, and the
majority of them are being artifcially
fed. Many are in the hospital
a petition to the Queen is being ex-
tensively signed. seeking to procure the
liberation Of the women. The govern
ment has already promised to liberate
any who will undertake TO refrain from
militant tactics in the future.
"An these stories I'm the dispatches from
London Of Mrs Pankhurst's failing health
and Of her tottering steps and fearful de
meanor when brought before the bar l be
reve 10 be nothing but fabrications," said
Mrs. Arthur F. Townsend, treasurer of the
Woman's Political Union, when she was
told yesterday that Mrs. Pankhurst had
been released from Holloway Jail, the re-
mainder of her nine months sentence hav-
ing been RENTED owing 10 her physical
breakdown from trying the hunger strike.
I'VE here at the union know nothing of
Mrs. Pankhursts in health" Mrs. Town
send went on Nothing is said about II in
the official organ Of her society Votes for
Women No. the English government set
Mrs. Pankhurst free not because of any
sympathy for her. but because it didn t
dare To keep her a prisoner after letting
Tom Mann off with only six weeks i'm
pisonment. Tom Mann advised soldiers
not to fire on union strikers. and if his
go cir gsF.e
under the military law, would have in
Cured the penalty Of death. He was sem
fenced to six months Imprisonment, which
was committed TO two months, and then
he was let off with six weeks.
Mrs. Pankhurst and her followers broke
few windows. and the jury in the case
specially recommended that because of
their motives leniency be shown. Yet the
Judge imposed the very severe sentence,
ana II has taken untold effort on the part
of the suffra gists to get the prisoners into
the First Division. thereby securing for
them the rank Of political prisoners"
Mrs. Martha Wentworth Suffern, vice
chairman Of the Woman Suffrage party,
was sure that Mrs. Pankhursts release
was due to the Daughters of Liberty, the
society the suffragists organized over here
with the avowed intention of boycotung
English goods until Mrs. Pankhurst was
out Of Jail. Depend upon it," she said,
1T was the Daughters Of Liberty that
did it
New York sunragists are busily accumu-
lating testimony TO confute tine charge,
published I'm The Womans Protest the
organ of the National Association Opposed
TO Woman Suffrage, that college students
and working women were paid from 81 to s.
to march in the May parade. Mrs. 0. II.
P. Belmont wrote TO the WOmans Political
Union yesterday as follows: 1t seems
hardly necessary 10 deny such a general
statement, one which could be made off
hand bj anybody. We all know there is
no basis of truth in the statement, and so
far as the Political Equality Association Is
Concerned / can say that no one VINO
marched in our division received any con-
sderation Of any kind"
Not one OF the paradcrs in the college
SECTION" wrote Mrs. Charles Tiffany, presi-
dent Of the Collegiate Equal Suffrage
League, was paid or offered any consid-
eration whatever. It seems incredible thdt
any one should need TO be assured OF TINS
lam glad 10 hear that the WOmans Politi-
cal Union is contemplating suit for libel
The Woman Suffrage party has already
through Mrs James Lees Iaidlaw, testified
that nothing whatever was paid to any
one who marched in its section
Mrs. Townsend relieved her feelings yes
trday by giving snake to the Bronx
ZOO" and naming it Anti suf Thus the
latest arrival at the 200" is puff adder,
a snake which pufs itself up and looks
extremely terrifying, but whose bite
amounts to nothing, after all.