The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-17
PR|SON PROSPECT
HOLDS NO TERRORS
FOR MOTHER Jones
Aged Strike Leader Is
Going Back to
Trinidad.
WILL NOT SUBMIT
TO MILITARY RULE
Picturesque Friend of the Min
ers Claims She Was Deported,
Which Is Not in Accord With
Official Story-Departure
Attended With Great
Secrecy.

Denver. Col, March LII viii 20
back to Trinidad before the end OF this
week This was the declaration made
tonight by Mother" Jones, eighty
TWO ycars old, leader Of the striking
coal miners. who was released last
night from tho Trinidad hospital.
'"hcre Fhe had been a military prisoner
since January y, and brought TO
Denver. The manner in which She left
the camp was attended with great
secrecy
Il fully expect to be returned to
hut no Governor nor President can
make me abandon my constitutional
right as a citizen TO 20 where / please.
So long as l live. ! shall refuse 10 sub
init TO military despotism."
Mother" Jones made this statement
after an interview with Governor Am
mons late to-day. She reached Den
Yer thus morning There is :. radical
difference between the statements OF
Mother Jones and the state authori-
ties. as to the manner IN which she
left the hospital.
Says She Was Deportcd.
The strike leader declares she sim
ply was dcportcd; that she was brought
10 Denver under military escort and
at state expense. without having ever
given her consent TO leaving the strike
zone.
Governor Anmons and Adjutant-
General John Chase said Mother
Jones had expressed willingness to
leave the strike zone il Governor Am
mons would grant her an interview.
Horace y. Hawkins. attorney for the
strikers, entered the controversy with
the statement that he told the Gov
ernor Mother" Jones had not asked
Tor an interview, but that she would
call on the Governor II invited TO do
a " i've DIR
crnor then invited the strike leader TO
call upon him.
The conference between Mother
Jones and Governor Ammons was at
tended by John r. Lawson and John
Mcl-ennan. strike leaders. by Hawkins
and by Claude Fairchild, the Gov
crnors private secretary
Mother Jones told the Governor.
whom she held responsible for her
imprisonment and many other events
in the history of the strike, which she
declares discrcditablc to the State
that she had been dcported against her
will. She said she would return to
Trinidad whenever she pleased TIE
Governor replied he hoped She would
not violate the law or do anything
10 cause disorder in the strike zone.
mere vas lengthy argument over
constitutional rights. and the authority
CT thc militia TO make arrests
Serve Notice on Governor
In The course of the interview with
the Governor, the strike leaders served
notice they would make an effort TO
restore the Lower Forbes tent colony,
where tents recently We're taken down
by the militia.
Attorney Hawkins declared 1t his
opinion that the authorities had
Drought Mother Jones here and re-
leased her 10 block an appeal TO the
supreme Court in the application for
witt OF habcas corpus, recently de-
MED by District Judge ~ w. McIIen
drie. at Trinidad.
In declaring she would return to
Trinidad. Mrs. Jones said she wished
20 look after the comfort of the wom-
en- and children of the strikers, and.
particularly, to establish schools for
those in the tent colonies
II they 10 not arrest me at once"
she said. II shall 20 ahead caring for
the strikers women and children, and
encouraging the men 10 resist tyranny
and robbery by the coal operators
Mother Jones was put on an Atchi-
son, Topeka ana Santa Fe train last
night, arriving in Denver carly to-day.
Her transportation from the strike dis
trlct came after She declared her in
ten;ion of leaving the district pcrma-
ncnt!y. General Chase had said ever
since her arrest that She was at liberty
10 leave when She desired
Mother" Jones was arrested ar Trim
idad on January II. after having been
dcportcd from the district the week be-
fore and told net to return. Since
her detention several efforts have been
made to obtain her release.