Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-10
CHARGE HUNGER STRIKER
IS TO Be "RA|LR0ADED"
Suffrage Leaders shy Officials Intend
Sending Miss Paul to
Asylum.
SISTER CANNOT SEE HER
Alleged to Have Said Official Told
Her She Was to Be Examined as
to Her AIentality-Held Incommu-
nicadO.

w SHING TON. November o.
Charges that the District authorities
are engaged in a plot to railroad" Miss
Alice Paul. hunger strike leader of the
White House suffragist picaets. to the
insane asylum. were made at the head
quarters of the Woman's party to-
night.
The charges followed a surreptitious
visit of two party leaders to Miss Paul,
who, with Miss Rose Winslow, her fell
low hunger striker. is held incommu-
nicado in the hospital of the Washing
ton Jail. The pair, with five other SUI
fragists. are serving sentences of seven
months for picketing the White House..
Beyond the announcement of the Jail
authorities that Miss Paul and Miss
Winslow had been removed to the Jail
hospital, the leaders Of the Woman's
party had been for three days with
out exact knowledge of the where
abouts Of the pair. To-da!. however.
newspaper reporter went out on a
still hunt and located the two in the
psychopathic ward Of the hospital He
reported his find to suffrage headQuar-
ters.
Late this afternoon Mrs. Agnes
Morey. of Boston, and Miss Helen Paul,
sister OF Alice Paul. went TO the Jail
grounds. The gates to the grounds sur
although the Jail proper is walled In.
The pair walked through the grounds
trying to locate the ward In which Miss
Paul was In 'arcerated, when they
heard her voice from an upstairs win
dow.
This is the story Mrs Mercy says
Miss Paul told her: 81 have fought
every effort to feed me; but 1 have
been forcibly fed twice to-day. This
morning they told me that 1 would
have to Undergo an examination as to
my mental conditiCn. objected
strenuously. but THIS afternoon five
physicianc forced M to undergo the
examination. They told me that my
mental condition was such It might be
necessary to send me to ST. Eliza
beth's"
REFUSES TO PERMIT SISTER
TO SEE HUNGER STRIKER
st. Elizabeth's Hospital is the gov
eminent insaLc asylum. Miss Morey
also declares that Miss Paul told her
that w. E. Gwynne Gardner, the Dis
trict commissioners in charge Of police
and hospitals. was present at the
examination. Commissioner Gardner
earlier in the day had refused to per-
NIT either Miss Paurs sister or her
physician, DR.. Cora Smith King, to
visit her at the hospital.
Il am being Systematically perse-
cuted in an effort to break my will
and make ;ne give UP my fight for
decent conditions for the other suffrage
prisoners" Miss Morey says Miss Paul
told her. ''They won't permit me to
have my things. I asked for air, and
they boarded up my windows; I asked
for privacy. and they took down the
iron doors. leaving on the bars, while
scores Of men walk through the COR
ridors"
Miss Paul was a wreck" says Miss
Morey. Her face was gray. The fear
that she will be sent to the insane
asylum has terrorized her."
Headquarters OF the Woman's party
was working at high tension tonight
rounding up strength to try new bat
tie with the law for the freedom OF
Miss Paul. Meanwhile, the District au-
thorities were denying that there was
any trouble. Superintendent Zinkham
OF the District Jail. and DR.. J. A. Can
non. the jail physician, both stated that
Miss Paul and Miss Winslow had been
fed three times to-day, through a tube.
without trouble.
These women are trying to make
martyrs of themselves" said Dr. Can
non tonight. "As matter Of fact.
there has been no trouble whatever"
SAYS FEEDING STRUGGLE LEFT
HER PAINTING FOR BREATH
A story struggled out from Miss
Winsiow. however, is entirely different.
She says Miss Paul. who Is frail, could
not tight strenuously. but in her own
case she declares the efforts of tho