The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-10-24
JAIL SCARES GIRL
PANKHURST AGENTS
Sale Of "SuffraUctte" Ends sud-
denly When Waldo Asks
Warrants.
CUMSTOCk TO ACT !h."AY
Mrs. PMnkhurSt Said 20 Face )
Years and 81. 900 Fine for
importing Them.

Th- complaints against Miss thristabel
rankhursts articles on sex in the copies
of the SDgro0.tte sold by girls at Madison
Suuar, Garden on Tuesday night and
since then at the Political Equality Assoc
cia,ions rooms at Is East Forty first
street yesterday caused Commissioners
Waldo to send -four detectives from Head
quarters to Investigate.
When the detectives after buying copies
in the rooms. where Mls O. Il =. Bel
mont. president Of the association. was
/ in charge. at her desk. made their report
an application for a warrant to arrest
Jan, Doe seller Of copies OF the mill
tants' publication Immediately was made
by the police to chief Magistrate Will
lam McAdoo.
/ Magistta,. McAdoo said he would tax.
no action until this morning In the
m.antm. at the vice society's offices
/ Anthony Coms,ock who had asserted
earlier in the day that we do no, intend
/ to permit the sewas. of Europe to be
spread over the streets OF New York
! after the same hthy sewage has been
! suppressed IN Europe" was busy on
brief concerning Mis-. panhnursts writ.
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t"rney Whitman early to-day
sale SoddenIy stopped.
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had gone on under the charge of the mill.
tant Miss Elsie Mackenzie and young
women assistants was called off suddenly
ahou, o'clock ves,s,dav so,r altar IN.
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Miss Florence Harmon ,who a short
. Time pe'oV" h"u 'hSlst"u "heh aoressen
by the reporter as MISS harmon tha'
he was talking TO Miss WiokhamD y
the dark haired giri-Miss Wickham. by
the way. IL pronounced olonde-who had
been selling the papers also put on her
hat and coat and then Mrs. Felmonts
"lubrooms we're left to the octoroon to
p close up
= You KNOW. MI 'oms'o'h' the mead
o or the vice society was tod by re
porter later that not long after the
police mad" application for warrant
4 the sufragists stopped the sale OF the
paper Does this anec' your tutnre ac'
ton
u don't want TO give away secrets o.
, my trade" he answered. but ! will say
= that obtained all the necessary evidence
before the sale OF the paper was stopped.
!. Mr.. Comstock would not go into de
tails but II is known that the author
ties consider four OF the numbers of thu
Z SpGrnOcffe Objectionable. and one number
| in particular that Mr. Comstock thinks
> so bad that II undoubtedly comes upde
!. the ban" A conviction for selling oh
I jectonable matter may bring sentence
l. of one year in Jail and $500 fine. {
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The warrant asked Tor by the pohc
n yesterday cannot apply to Mrs fankhurs'
but only to sellers OF the paper. Mis-
Mackenzie said on wednesday nisht
: Mrs. Bemonts headquarters when aske'
: how the copies or the S"Urd9e'e on s'u
: had been brought here that some OF then
T. had been shipped mere under nohd AM
l. that Mrs. Pankhurst also had brought II
e "A bundle of copies,
u The importation OF printed matte
deemed Objectionable Is a subject wit
u which the Federal o'ticers d'<i The pen
atty Tor CONVICTION ls nNe years IN Jai
and a fine or $J.oUo.
Mrs. PanknuTst III u snort interview Sn