New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-05
DERBY SUFFRACEHE
KNOWN HERE AS FIGHTER
Militant Hurt Trying to Throw
the Kings Horse Knew No
Fear, Admirer Says.
HOLDS DEGREE IN LAW
Emily Dawson in Her Efforts
for Cause in England, Has
Been Elected from Parlia-
ment and Often in Jail.

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u knew Emily Wilding Dawson as
well as know my own daughter" SAL
Mrs. Mary Freeman. mother OF Miss
| Elizabeth Freeman, the suffragist, yes
terday. A little mite Of thing.
Emily is. but she doesn't know such a
thing as fear
When Miss Freeman went TO Eng
land at the beginning OF the militant
movement her mother went with her.
and she was with her heart and soul
through all her activities as a member
OF the Woman's Social and Political
Union.
| So when the news came yesterday
that Miss Dawson had in trying 10
throw the Kings horse on the race
course at Tottenham Corner been
thrown herself and so badly trampied
that she was not expected to live, Mrs.
Freeman was much troubled.
Often in English JaIls.
Emily had pluck" she said. once
when she was in Holloway jail-she's
been in a number of times, and sub
| jected To forcible feeding on at least
| four different imprisonments, as the
badges she wears show-well, this time
she made up her mind she just wouldn't
be forcibly fed. She took the two plank
| beds i'm the cell. for though there was
only one prisoner there happened 10
be two beds, just planks they were,
twelve inches wide. She put the end
of one against the door. and the end
Of the other against the window. which
opened inward and was opposite the
door. That left about a foot's space
between the two plank ends In the
middle Of the room. She put stool
between them. and sat on il.
THE jailors battered at the door and
threatened her, but she wouldn't move.
| Then they broke n hole in the window
and with the fire hose played stream
of cold water on her back for nearly
an hour. At last they broke I'm. Emily
had pneumonia after that, ana they
had e. release her.
she is the girl who in 1910 got into
one Of the towers Of the Houses Of Par
lament on Saturday, and stayed
there concealed all that night and Sun
dav. with only a bottle Of milk and Il
few crackers. And then, Sunday night,
the Waterman heard a bit OF plaster
dropping when she stirred In the mar
row place where she hid, and she was
found and put out.
All Night in Chapel.
she got into ST. stephens Chapel
once. too: that is the chapel under the
Houses Of Parliament. While she was
! hidden there she heard a lady who was
being shown through the chapel say TO
the Waterman. Aren't YOU afraid TO
STAY here, with all the dead buried
under these stones Emily stayed
there all night. and she wasn't afraid,
either.
"Once. in 1909, she climbed to the
roof Of A hall in some suburban town
/ forget the name-where a political
meeting was 10 he held. She waited
there for hours in the snow, and when
the meeting began she let herself down
through a skylight, and, hanging there
out Of reach Of the stewards. heckled
the speakers through a megaphone.
Americans won't understand how
brave Emily and the women like her
are, for Americans don't understand
the situation in England They don't
know how shamefully those women
| have been treated.
| Emily Wilding Dawson is a brave
| girl But" added Mrs. Freeman, this
is hard on her mother. She was
| clever girl, too-a b. 4. She studied
for the law, but in England a woman is
not allowed TO practise before the bar.
! She can write briefs. but she can't APP
pear before the bar"