The sun., 1916-10-27
3 BIRTH CONTROL
ADVOCATES HELD
Mrs. Sanger, Her Clerk and
Sister Arrested After
Raid on Clinic.

What Mrs. Margaret Sanger has been
pleased to call "the only birth control
clinic In the United States" was ra.ded
by the police yesterday afternoon and
Mrs. Sanger with her assistant. Miss
Fanny Mindell. rode to the station In a
patrol wagon. They were held in $500
bail each. The address Of the clinic was
kept comparatively secret for several
days, but the police finally found 1t in
AZ Amboy street Mrs. Sanger's sister.
Mrs. Ethel Byrne. "A nurse a, the clinic.
was arrested last night al her home. FAC
West Fourteenth street, Manhattan.
Mrs. Sanger first made her name
known to the public by editing the
Woman Rebel. a publication dedicated
To the emancipation of w~omankind' and
purportiug TO give scientific methods OF
decreasing the birth rate, The puolica-
ton was excluded from the mails after
a few numbers and Mrs, Sanger was
Indicted but the indictment was quashed
last February.
Then after "A coast TO coast lecture
tour Mrs. sanger announced that she
would test the powers OF the courts
again. She would start a clinic, she said.
where women could get oral informa-
ton.
Although Mrs. Sanger did not actually
tell the police the address OF her clinic
there Were no apparent attempts to con-
ceal It. She selected a little store on
Amboy street, a few doors from pitkin
avenue. Lace curtains screened the in
terror, hut a sign on the door stated that
office hours were from 10 to 6, show
ing that II was no mere store, and a
snnIN roo A -l
going served to advertise the place.
Detective Sergeant David J., Barry
stood by the grocery next door shortly
after noon yesterday. and watched the
women come and go. Mrs. Margaret
Whitehurst. a woman detective, passed
Sergeant Barry and went inside. De.
%tectivcs Mooney and Boylan followed her
IN a minute n Barry went IN after
them and closed the door.
In the outer room. the detectives said,
they found Miss Mindell c~ataioguing the
women as they applied, and in a rear
office Mrs. Whitehurst found Mrs. Sanger
giving advice relating to birth control tc
three women. There were about ffteer
customers" In the place at the time
and the detectives took their m and
addresses.
Mrs. Sanger did not stop her WORK
when Mrs. Whitehurst invaded her office
but when Barry followed she grasped the
situation, and her face whitened.
Her eyes flashing at Mrs. Whitehurst
she cried You're a spy"
John Doe warrants issued by Magis
trate Walsh were served on Mrs. SangeI
and her assistant. Then she refuse,
point blank to 20 with the detectives /,
the Liberty avenue station. Barry coaxet
and pleaded.
"\nNN tISt mt IN vnIIE N,,At and ,a,,
quietly" he said. "and we will attrac
as little attention as possible. We inten
to treat you kindly, but IL you will no
come quietly ] will have to call a patrC
WAGON"
Mrs. Sanger announced that she woul
thousand persons had gathered out |
front when Mre, Sanger came out wit
the officers, She faced the crowd an
raised her lands
"Gcntlemen,' she began, 'Is this wha
you call America
t%ectives lifted her quickly into the WACO
and the rest OF the speech was browne
by the noise Of the motor.
At the New Jersey Avenue Court Mr.,
Sanger would havS nothing to do wit
the lawyers who offered to help her, Sh
refused to appeal to her friends for bal
but said she preferred to go to Jail. He
case viii come up for n hearins on Nor
day.