New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-23
Mrs. Sanger's Birth Con
troll Aid Will Go to the
Workhouse To-day
WEALTHY FRIENDS
CANNOT GIVE BAIL
Efforts to Free Prisoner,
Who Threatens Hunger
Strike, Begun

The children Mrs. Ethel Byrne was
nursing through the measles will have
to get another nurse. Mrs. Byrne was
sent TO the Workhouse yesterday for
thirty days as a penalty FOR assisting
Mrs. Margaret Sanger in her birth con-
troll clinic.
The penalty came as surprise 10
Mrs. Byrne. She got two hours of from
her measles case yesterday morning to
70 through the Formally of hearing
Justice Garvin pronounce sentence upon
her. She was accompanied by lawyers,
and wealthy friends were ready to pro-
vide bail pending an appeal. So she
expected TO be back in time to take the
temperature of the measles victims at 2
O'Clock.
Mrs. Byrne was arraigned in Special
Sessions, Brooklyn, before Justices
Garvin, O'Keefe and Hermann. When
the former sentenced her Jonah j..
Goldstein. her lawyer, said he would
ask for writ of habeas corpus. This
application was later refused by JUS
tice Callaghan, in the Supreme Court
Brooklyn.
Promises Hunger Strike
81 shall go on a hunger strike at
once" Mrs. Byrne then declared. "Ihey
can take me to the Workhouse, but
thew cannot make me eat or drink or
work while | am there"
Mrs. Sanger sat with Mrs. Byrne, her
sister, all day until the prison van ar
rived, and wnen she had waved fare
we'll 10 her she turned, trembling with
indignation.
"See. nv sisters money! She means to
keen her word about hunger striking,
and she has given me her money, so
that they cannot tempt her to buy
deinty food when her strength is fail
irg;. Ill. ,o,.o.a ,,or,on N
New York State lose their lives every
year because this bad law is on the
statute books. She is willing TO lose
hers TO take it Off"
Taken TO Jail
Mrs. Byrne was taken TO Raymond
Street Jail last night. and will go to
Blackwell's Island this morning. Mr.
Goldstein was extremely Indignant over
the strait of his client.
81 shall ask Justice Cropsey,' he
said. "for a certificate of reasonable
doubt and the United States court for
writ of habeas corpus. There is no
-, ho tot latu
barrie. In the Federal courts a motion
10 appeal the case acts as stay Of exc
cution, and il should be so in the state
courts. Even if they grant the appeal
now and reverse the sentence, II viii be
too late to save Mrs. Byrne from many
days in the workhouse."
Mrs. Sanger and the birth control
coterie were just as indignant as the
lawyer last night, but they saw no
hope. They went into secret executive
session. and the Committee of One
Hundred will be appealed to to-day TO
plan for the future of the movement
in case Mrs. Sanger is convicted next
week.
On Monday she will face a charge OF
conducting the clinic at as Ansoy
Street, Brooklyn, where Mrs. Byrne
was an assistant As Miss Fania Mon
dell. another assistant, Is TO be tried
first, the committee in charge OF the
Carnegie Hall meeting scheduled for
Monday evening is going ahead with
its arrangements, believing that Mrs.
Ssnger's case will not be concluded in
time to prevent her attendance at the
rally.
Miss Helen Todd telephoned the JUS
tice last night in the name Of the Com
mittee of One Hundred, asking him TO
set time when he could see the
women and explain to them the work
ings of the law in Mrs. Byrne's case.
He replied that he would have no time.
The committee, therefore, issued a
public statement, calling upon the peo-
pie of the city to protest with them
against the "disproportionate severity
oF tho Sau4nnca