Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-14
MILITANTS SAVE
MISS PANkHURST
Leader Dragged from London
Platform to Street; Freed
After Clash; Riot in Hall.

struggle the police arrested Miss
Sylvia Pankhurst at Bow Heath, in
the east end of London, last night,
when the police got her outside the
building with the intention of placing
her in taxicab and rushing her to
Holloway Jail, the militants attacked
them so savagely that they had TO let
her go and she escaped.
Miss Pankhurst, who has an uacom-
pleted term of Imprisonment to serve,
was not recognised until she threw
aside the disguise which enabled her
to elude the police and enter the
building.
She was warmly applauded as she
stepped on the platform, but had been
speaking only few minutes when de-
tectives, accompanied by a body of
uniformed police with drawn trunch-
cons, entered the hall and made a
rush for the platform.
The audience arose and chairs be-
gan to fly, the invaders being the OBJ
jective point. Some of the people in
the galleries even dropped benches on
their heads.
The police gained the platform and
for ten minutes desperate battle
waged, the officers using their clubs
freely and those on the platform utiliz-
! ing chairs as weapons.
The police succeeded in dragging
Miss Pankhurst down to the floor of
the house. while reinforcements clear
/ ed the hall Outside the struggle was
renewed with greater fury. Men and
women were thrown down and tram
pied upon.
Concentrating the attack on the
policemen who had the militant leader
in their grasp, the women with the
assistance of several men succeeded in
tearing her from their grip and she
slipped away. Some of the women at
forwards complained of having been
thrown down and kicked by the police
and men, after the fracas, were seen
nursing bruises.
Miss Zelie Emerson of Jackson,
Mich, whose imprisonment caused such
furore several months ago, was one
of those injured. Mrs. Lee, who pre-
sided at the meeting and took con
spicuous part in the attack on the
police was arrested.
Miss Pankhurst later announced her
intention to address meeting at the
Poplar town hall tonight.
Washington, d. c., Oct. 14.-When
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the mill
tant British suffraget, arrives on the
liner La Provence this week, probably
Friday, she will be detained at the
Ellis island immigrant station, accord
ing to present plans, until special
board of inquiry can determine wheth
er she comes within the class of aliens
excluded from the United States.
While the immigration authorities
have issued no orders for her deten
ton, scores of protests against hel
admission, lodged with immigration
headqua- - and with the loca
authorities at New York, leave no 9th
er course open to the authorities.
Officials here say no protest agains
Mrg. Pankhursts admission have beer
received from the society opposed t.
| woman suffrage" or from any of it
: members on behalf of the organiza
J ton.
The controversy which has beer
stirred up in advance of her landing
officials point out, has created sit
uation which no single immigration
inspector would attempt to settle, ant
} no course remains but to detain he
: until her case can be passed upon b.
l. TO- Of hn
in the case of any other disputes
: landing
! A record of Mrs. Pankhurst's activ
: tiles, her arrests and imprisonments
: has been furnished to the authorize
: at New York. Upon that and upol
t a hearing the immigration authori
! ties will decide if any of the suffrag
, leaders acts have been such as to dc
{ bar her from the United States.
principal question to be determine,
will be, do her court record and jai
[ sentences in the cause of votes TO
women constitute moral turpitud
: within the meaning of the immigration
: law?
D Officials expect a legal battle to al
: tract the attention of suffragists al
) over the world. The national suffrag
+ organization probably will aid tn
: British leader. Whether the anti-sui
. fragists will conduct any organized r.
t sistance to her landing is not know
r here.
: Suffrage leaders intimate that tn
z decision by the immigration author
ties adverse to Mrs. Pankhurst ma
i be carried to the courts as was tn
i recent case of Cipriano Castro, whic
J. resulted in a victory for the Venezut
|. Ian exile.
J, Chicago, Oct 1.-THE co-operativ
/ suffrage organizations of Chicago yel
;, terday decided to invite Mrs. Emm.
line Pankhurst to Chicago and to SUI
a port her at her lecture to take plac
q at the Auditorium theatre Sunday a
, ternoon, Nov. 2.
New York -Tlavid We