The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-04
Miss Emile Auguste Lind al Hageby
Never Studied Law and
Only Had the
Ono Case.
AN ANTI-VIvIsECTIoNIsT
She is Quite an Interesting Woman
and is Doing Telling Work
For Her
Hobby.

| IL,
emit of the United Press.]
LONDON, May 3-The most talked
about English woman lawyer today is
neither English by birth nor lawyer
by profession.
Miss Emile Auguste Lind-af-Hageby
is a native of Sweden. she even never
studied law. and she has tried only
her one case In her life.4 Until she APP
peared as her own counsel in her re-
cent libel suit against one of the Lon
don newspapers she was fairly we'll
known as a propagandist. but few sus-
pected the astonishing qualities she
possessed as a Portia.
For years one of the leaders in the
antiyivisection movement in England
at present general secretary of the
Animals Defense and Anti-vivisec-
ton society, and editor of the Anti
yiyisection Review she had been
vigorously assailing In public
speeches, pamphlets, and newspaper
articles that section of the medical
profession which holds that surgical
! experiments on living animals are nee
essary for the benefit OF humanity.
She had opened shop in Piccadilly
/ fer the distribution of anti-yivisection
| literature, In the windows of which
| were displayed pictures and models
| showing the tortures inflicted upon
| animals in the name of science. and
so effective had become her cam
paign that the yivisectionists started
an opposition shop next door. Final
IL DR. Caleb w. Saleeby, famous
eugenist, wrote piece for the Pail
| Nall Gazette in which. among other
| things, he referred to 1.-The systematic
campaign of fa1sehood without which
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. campaign could
not exist" and declaring that the anti
vivisectionists had made Piccadills
almost impossible for decent people
By the INSCRIPTIONS mendacity o.
| their hirelings. Miss Lind-af-Eageb,
promptly sued the newspaper
the doctor
Her speech in presenting her cass
was by all odds the most brilliant de
liyered in the law courts this tern
and the most noteworthy pleadin!
made by woman in England in re
cent years. 1t was logical, forceful
and eloquent throughout. At the rat
of 200 words a minute, she talked 10
nine and a half hours-beginning on
afternoon, and continuing through tn
next days session and the followin
morning. AS fresh when she f1nishe
as when she started, she then too
the witness stand for three days more
AS long distance oratorical effort
was almost as remarkable as that c
the late Tom Carter in the Unite
States senate when he talked tn
river and harbor bill to death and
attracted as much public attention
this side as Carter's feat did in Anne
lea
Miss Lind-af-Hageby (the "af'
equivalent to the German Won
the French de- came TO Englar
when a young girl to be educate
That she is a good lawyer may |
partially due to the fact that ~
father who at the time of his dea'
held the post OF chamberlain to u
King of Sweden. was q distinguish
barrister. She became a naturallz'
British citizen the day before makil
her debut in the courts. She is ia
i handsome. and speaks with hardly
i trace OF foreign accent She has
small personal fortune which togeth
with all her time and talents she
devoting to the cause to which S
has dedicated her life.
Asked to tell how she came to
an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. crusader. MI
Lind-af-Hageby said
Early In life my mind was turn
from balls and dances and other pa
times which young girls usually q
supposed to enjoy. | became INT
egted In work for women and chiidr
in prison reform, and social VIC
generally / used TO go to boys,
formatories. | began to deliver
lures. All my interest at that q
81 Was in human beings.
Then, learning Of the maryels