The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-10

MAY REQUIRE FEEDING
Woes Of the Prison Officials Are In
creased by the Stubborn At
titude of Their Fair
Charges.

i LONDON, March 9.--The situation
SO far as the suffragettes in Holloway
prison is concerned, is tonight ad-
mittedly giving the authorities grave
j concern. With dozen Of the militant
suffragettes including Alice Wright,
the American girl, in solitary confine-
ment for assaulting wardresses, who
tried to make them work, the woes
OF the officials have been increased by
the women starting hungry strike.
4 1t is known that the majority of
those convit ted have refused all
food and that the home secretary has
) been asked whether the forcible feed
ing methods by means of rubber
tubes are again to be used. 1t is be-
lieved authority to do so has already
been received by the governor of the
J, prison, but because Of the usly tenn
!. per among the militant suffragettes
. not yet arrested all information re-
: garding what is transpiring within
the prison is withheld.
1t is known that when Mrs. Emme-
, line Pankhurst was brought into court
, on Thursday to answer to the con-
! spiracy charge she confided to
/ friends who managed to speak to her
that she planned the hunger strike.
She was then pale and APPARENTLY on
: the verge OF mysteries a7ld il has
! since been learned that from the time
, she was arrested she had refused
). food. Her companion, Mrs. Mabel
!. Tuke. secretary of the social and po
1itical union, who has been locked in
the cell with her also refused food
How many others Joined the move
ment cannot be learned but it is be
!, lieved more than half of the prisoners
!, now in the big institution have done
so to force the hand OF the govern
ment
1t is realized by the home secretary
and other officials that If any of the
women succeed in starving themselves
1 to death while in custody there will
: be revulsion of feeling throughout
the country in favor of the women
that will compel the government te
grant suffrage. On the other hand
I if they do as they did in other cities
, and discharge the women from Gus
: tody they will have to meet a cam
paign of violence that will make the
rIpresent one recede into comparative
insignificance.
r The government has about com
( ipleted its preparations for the prose
l. cution of Mr.. and Mrs. F. Pethicl
It Lawrence, joint editors of Votes fol
e Women Mrs Pankhurst, Mrs. Tux.
n and other leaders on the conspirac,
d charge. When they are arraigned il
l. Bow street police court newt Thurs
e day the government will present |
great amount of evidence agains
e them. Letters and documents seize,
d in the raid on suffrage headquarter
l. including letter book containing
70 copies of hundreds of letters sent b.
e the leadrs to the suburbs and pre-
y vinces asking militant women Their
a. to come to London to assist In tn
r. raid and emphasizing the damage
was planned to do, will be use
against the accused In addition tn
IS sworn admissions of women who hay
l. been tried for wilful destruction c
- property and who admitted they ha
q been brought to the city "unde
orders" will also be presented to tn
court.
1t is the general belief that ther
: will be nothing FOR the magistrate t
do but to bind over all the accuse
for trial.
1t was reported tonight that Chris
1 tobel Pankhurst, who eyaded the pt
: llice sent to arrest her, succeeded /
getting to the continent and that sh
iel lis now enroute to the United State'
or to raise funds for the defense Of he
IS mother and companions. While tn
a. government has not vet attached til
sunds of the militant organization
ne it is expected this action may shortl
he be taken and if this is done, it wi
ly he necessarily to raise another 'swa
IS fund.-
rt Countess of Warwick is Mad.
an NEW YORK, March 9.--The mil
k" tant suffragettes of England came
ly for some warm denunciation from tn
is Countess of Warwick, one of the Bri
ish suffrage leaders, when she aligh
an ed from the Mauretania late this afte
ly noon. These women by their actic
to have set back possibly for years til
ry cause they profess to be working for
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