The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-04-11
London's Peace Commis-
sioner Will Fight Fire
With Fire" in Suppression
of the Militant Suffragists
Who Have Been Causing
So Much Trouble of Late
ZELIE EMERSON IS
b PAYING THE PRICE
American Girl Confined in
Prison Has Ruined Diges-
ton and May Never Speak
Above Whisper Again
8 Friends Want an Appeal
Made to Secretary Bryan
(speclal Dlsnateh 10 The cam

Especial Dispatch to The Call)
LONDON, April 1O-On the principle
of lighting fire with fire. Sir Edward
Henry. commissioner of the metropolis
tan police. proposes to put an army of
secret service women on the trail of
the militant suffragettes.
The renewal of bomb ontrages and
the declaration of one woman prisoner
today that she would %shoot to kill" if
attacked by hostile men have revived
uneasiness and the i conviction that
worse deeds may be expected before the
agita tion is quelled
Annie Bell. one of the Holloway Jail
nicl1ets, defed the magistrates to their
faces when placed in the dock at Bow
street today for creating a disturbance
ANNIE BELL. DEFIANT
Il am not to be terrorized by toughs.'
she said. IF I had been attacked
would have shot the first man who put
a hand on me-
MISS EMERSON PHYSICAL WRECK
Annie admitted she was 'heeled, but
coutrived to smuggle her weapon away
from the police. She has been released
on bail and the promise to be good
girl and not shoot up the town.
Young and pretty. she presented a
picturesque figure The police say she
IS not really, dangerous but others
think she would be much safer behind
The bars.
Miss zelie Emerson is in serious
which she. was taken after her re-
lease. Her mother spent yesterday and
today at the hospital. but was unable
ia See her daughter except for half an
hour. with the nurses and doctors pres
cnt during their conversation
of course Miss Emerson is unable to
make statement Her mother also is
il a nervous condition.
DIGESTION Is RUINED
The physicians said Miss Emerson is
suffering extremely Her digestion is
ruined and she has violent pains in the
abdomen. IN addition the membranes
of the nose and throat are torn. and in
consequence she may never speak
above a whisper again.
Ultra militant suffragettes led by
Miss Helen scott-Troy of California
are now seeking to persuade Mrs. En-
erson to try to induce the state de-
partment to make an international case
OF her daughters experience. Another
division OF the suffragettes urge
against this. and there are rumors
among suffragettes that dissensions
over the Emerson case may lead to an
other split as when the Pethick Law
rences withdrew from the Pankhursts
and their supporters.
GEMS HURLED IN HEAP
There was tremendous enthusiasm at
Albert hall tonight when the women's
Social and Political union held their
great demonstration to call for funds
There came a shower of watches and
bEScelets; one woman even cast her
wedding ring in to the heap of glitter
ing jewelry.
There were individual gifts of $4,000.
$4,000 and 81, 500. Mrs. Belmont of New
York contributed 500 and Princess
DuIeep Singh $3.50 There were numer-
GUS anonymous gifts of $500 each, and
the grand total. including $4,000 col
lected during the suffragettes' self de-
NAL week, was SIS, 900, compared with
s50400 at the meeting last year.
Outside Of the gates of Holloway
prison, where Mrs. Pankhurst is now
incarcerated, can be seen just now one
OF the most curious spectacles Of this
or any other time. This is the duty of
sentry-zealously imposed upon them
selves by suffragettes. Never was
duty undertaken more solemnly and
earnestly.
RAIN ON SENTRIEs
This afternoon rain came down pitt
lessIy, and in the downpour two
suffragettes. unkempt and forlorn,
marched up and down hour after hour.
No sign of any human emotion ap-
peared on their wooden faces. their un-
becoming hats were dripping with rain
and sque1ch, squelch, they walked up
and down like restless bears in a
d cage.
Until today the sentries carried
flags. holding them as a soldier holds
his rife. but they were snatched away
GOTTEN by people in the crowds. and the
Rslice forbade their use.