The Topeka state journal., 1913-10-18
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English Militant Suffragette
Leader Ordered Deported
By the Immigration Officials at
Ellis Island.
PROCEEDINGS ARE RAIL ROADED
viii Not Let Her Stay Even
Under Bond.
Her Lawyer Will Appeal to
General Caminetti.
She Threatened to Go on a
Hunger Strike.
But Changes to Tea, Soup and
Sandwiches.
She Threatened to Go on a
Hunger Strike.
But Changes to Tea, Soup and
Sandwiches.

New York. Oct. 1S.-Mrs. F,mmeline
Pankhurst, the English militant suffra-
gett leader, who arrived here today for
lecture tour, was ordered deported by
the immigration authorities within a
little less than three hours after the
vessel upon which she came had dock
ed.
The special board of inquiry which
decided her case voted not to admit
her to the country under bond, but to
send her back to France forthwith.
Mrs. Pankhursts lawyer, Herbert
Reeves, announced his intention of ap-
pealing the case Immediately to Com
missioner General Caminetti. Pending
decision bv Mr.. Caminetti Mr.. Reeves
said he would seek to have his client
admitted to this country under bond
so that she may be able to fulfill her
engagement to speak at Madison
Square Garden tomorrow night
Ready to Give Bond.
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, the New
York woman's suffrage leader, who
was to have been Mrs. Pankhurst's
hostess, was prepared to give bonds
up to 100000 for Mrs. Pankhurst'S
good behavior while in America. I'm
der the ruling of the board she would
not be permitted to do so and Mrs.
PankhurSt must remain at Ellis Island
until deported, unless the board find
ings are reversed by the authorities at
Washington.
Mrs. Pankhurst's deportation was
ordered under section 2 of the immi
grafton law. This section provides
for the exclusion of persons convicted
abroad of crime or crimes involv-
ing moral turpitude. The board held
that Mrs. PaniShurst's conviction in
England for conspiracy to commit ar
son, brought her within this class.
The militant leaders case moved
with unexampled celerity. She was in
terrogated by immigration inspectors
on board the liner Provence, upon
which she had made the trip from
Havre. was detained but a few minutes
aboard the vessel when it docked, was
rushed in a special tug to the deten-
tion station at Ellis island and taken
Immediately before the special board
of inquiry there. Her examinat ton by
this board lasted little over an hour
and she was not represented by coun-
sci.
Mrs. Pankhurst told the immigra ton
officials that her purpose in coming to
America was not to advocate the mil
liant method for obtaining suffrage
but to lecture upon the history and the
progress of the cause in England.
Mr.. Reeves filed his appeal by long
distance telephone with Commissioner
General Caminetti and announced that
the commissioner general would hear
the case tomorrow.
Threatens Hunger Strike.
The best suite of rooms at the deten- /
ton station was placed at Mrs. Pank- !
bursts disposal pending the outcome |
Of her appeal.
When Mrs. Pankhurst was informed |
that she was to be deported she turned /
to her lawyer and the four women who |
had waited for the verdict and an
nounced her intention of beginning a |
lunger strike to compel the authorities
n Sha ho Ia,-
however. when she learned that she
was to be given a prompt hearing on
1er appeal Instead of beginning the
strike she ordered tea, chicken, soup
and sandwiches. She told reporters
she had not been given a fair hearing
nasmuch as her lawyer was not pres
ent.
Met on Board Steamer.
New York, Oct. 1S.-Mrs. Emmelfne
English militant suffra-
;ette leader, arriving in New York to-
lay, was denied admission to the coun-
ry until a special board of inquiry
,ould determine whether her prison
ecord in England was such that she
houId be excluded from the United
states. Mrs. Pankhurst was detained
board the liner Provence when it
locked. A special tug was commission
d to take her to Ellis Island. She was
,laced aboard and taken to the immi-
ration station there.
A special board of inquiry, it was an
would convene speedily and
ender a verdict sometime today if
ossible. This board set itself to de-
ermine if Mrs. Pankhurst's conviction
n England was for a crime involving
noral turpitude If so she would come
within the class excluded by the i'm
nigration act. If not, the act does not
pply. To inspectors who questioned
er aboard the Provence Mrs. Park
urst asserted that her conviction was
or a political offense and that it was
enerauy understood her sentence had
expired when she left England for
rance, although she had not been so
otified formally. Il
For a quarter of an hour, the mill j
ant leader was questioned by immi-
ration inspectors in the white and
old music room of the liner. \ curl
us crowd of passengers, eager to
earn the disposition of her case,
rooped in and pressed the two score
reporters forward till they
urrounded the little group. Rheta
,hild Dorr, Mrs. Fankhurst's travelling
sought to sit beside the
Militant leader during the hearing, but
his the inspectors would not permit
Mrs. Pankhurst alone. Il
I'M not coming to America to tell
American women how to get the Il