Arizona republican., 1916-11-26
MRS. bO|SSEvA|N
 DIES AF TER VAIN !. FIGHT FOR- LIFE
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 LOS ANGELES, Cal. Nov 25.-Mrs. IneZ Milholland Boissevain of New York suffrage leader. died at d local hospital, where she has been ill for ten weeks, tonight shortly before midnight.
 Inez Milholland Boissevain had been for many years widely known for her activity as a woman suffragist, so- cial welfare worker, an advocate of socialism, and as a practicing lawyer.
 As student in Vassar College. l505-9. although known as the college beauty. and possessed of wealth and position, she stunned society as such. and shocked the more conservative college opinion by her radical social views. One of her acts during this period was to hold a suffrage meeting in a graveyard at night when per mission to hold the meeting in the college chapel had been refused her. She also made a name for herself as an athlete, being captain of her class hockey team which won the college championship and a member of the 1909 track team at which time she established a new record for the col lege in the eight-pound shOt-put at q feet. SIS inches.
 Aside from her college activities. she worked among the poor children in the city of POughkeep psie. and had herself appointed court probation of ficer. During her first college vaca- tion she visited London and there joined the Pankhurst suffragettes. making several speeches and being once arrested
 During the 1908 presidential cam paign she won ne wfame as the girl who broke up the Taft parade" While ha in No. York City. she stationed herself in q window and shouted: Votes for Women" through a megaphone. Some of the marchers fell out of the parade and gathered around her to hear her make q speech for the suf frage cause.
 Following her graduation from Vas sar College, she attempted to enter Harvard Law School. but this permis- sion was denied her on the ground that it was not coeducatiOnal ins,i- tuition. The incident gave rise to q. heated newspaper controversy in which Inez Milholland and other nrominents feminists took part She also became active about this time in the working girls cause, taking part in the shirt waist makers strike Tn clash of the strikers with the police she was arrested and locked up,. hut after q controversy of several weeks the charge against her of leading an unlawful assembly was finally dropped.
 Miss Milholland finally received her degree in law at the New York Uni- versitv Law School in 1912. and dur ing this time she was active as a suffrage worker and speaker and or ganizer of woman's parades, being fea tured in them both in New York. Washington D. C.. and elsewhere as
 the most beautiful suffragette. At election time she was always watch CT at the polls and was among the women wko went to Albany to dc- mand of the legislature woman's rights to vote.
 She began the practice of law in i9l2 as a clerk in the offices of James W. Osborne, her first case being the defense of Red Phil'' Davidson charged with the murder Of Big Jack" Zelig. Her next case was the defense of Gee Doy Yung, accused of murder in a Chinatown tong war. and she was successful in obtaining his acquittal
 In July 1913 she married by civil ceremony in London. Eugen Boisse- vain. wealthy Hollander. to whom she had been introduced by William Marconi, inventor ofA wireless tele- graphy. She returned to this country and continued her practice of law and suffrage activities. In 1915 she was denied permission to make a suffrage speech at the fiftieth anniversary ceremonies of Vassar College. Later the same year she went to Italy as d war correspondent and was forced to leave Italy by the authorities there because of her pacifist writings.
 In 1916 she went as delegate on the Ford Peace Ship but left the party at Stockholm because, as she said in a statement the undemocratic methods employed by the managers are repugnant to my principles. Mrs. Boissevain was born in New York. August $. 1886. receiving her early education in New York. London and Berlin. She was a member of the political Equality League Wom- ems Political Union, National Child Labor Committee. Woman's Social and Political Union of England and the Fabian Society. England.