Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-03
LIBERATED P|CKETEERS
ENTER SUIT FOR 100000
Alicgc Assault md False Imprison.
Observation-Disclosures, Warden
and District Defendants.
SEEK JUSTICE, NOT REVENGE
Dudley Field Malone Counsel for
Flight Women, Who Ask 500, 900
Each for I,rutalitics arHcd
Against Officials OF Washington.

WASHINGTON. December 2.-Alleg-
in,: assault and false Imprisonment.
suffrage pickc;s recently released by
court order from OccoQuan workhouso
and the District Jail Will ME suits
Tuesday asking an aggregate of $780,
600 damages from tho District of Co
lumhia Commissioners, Surerint endcnt
Whitaker. of Occopuan, aud Warden
Hfukham. OF the District Jail.
Each Of the thirty pickets at frs;
intended TO file suitR, but il was de-
cidcd that eight would bring action.
The purpose being. according TO the
National Woman's Party, not TO sock
revenge. but to force tho correction OF
injustice. The other twenty-five pick
cts viii give testimony, however. and
in addition there will be atndavits from
prisoners and employees of OccoquIn.
some OF the brutalitics alleged are
the manaclinE OF Miss Lucy Burns. OF
BROOKLYN. To her cell door in n stand
ing position all night: the confning OF
Mrs.. Henry Buttcrworth. of New York.
in a cell in the mems division without
any woman prisoner woman at
;endant near: the wrcnching of the
neck and back OF Mrs. Julia Emory. Of
Baltimore. by MIR. Whitaker when he
threw her down on the floor OF her
cell: and injury TO Mrs. Mary A. Nolan.
Of Jacksonville. Fla, sevcnty.thrcc
years old. who also was flung into her
cell hitting a wall
DUDLEY FIELD MALONE
WILL HANDLE CASE
The suits are to be fled through Dud-
Icy Field Malone and his assistant
Matthew OBrien. of Washington, by
the women already mentioned and by
Mrs. John Winters Brown. of New
York: Mrs. Lawrence Lewis. Of Phila
dclphia; Miss Dorothy Day. Of New
York. and Mrs. Alice Cosu. OF New
orleans. Each woman asks 10000.
decision has already been rendered
by Judge Waddiil. OF the United Stateh
District Court OF Eastern Virginia.
sitting in Alexandria, in habcas corpus
proceedings that the Imprisonment ~
the pickets was illegal Mr.. Whitaker
has been sued before b. prisoners
alleging cruel and unusual punishment.
and award was made in favor OF the
prisoners In each case.
In support OF the alleged brutal
treatment the National Woman's Party
has aiiidavi,s OF prisoners and en-
pioyccs charging such discipline AT
3 W
oncrs chained outdoors TO trees over
niGlt and being forced to work bare
footed in he snow.
According to II statement of Miss
! Alice Paul, chairman OF the party. one
OF those recently released uncondition-
| ally after serving about five weeks OF
/ a seven months sentence for "obstruct-
! ing traffic" and Understanding TWEEN
ty-two days, with forcible feeding.
those damage suits arc not being
! brought In desire TO be rcvcngcd.
! but because such injustice in an insti-
| tuition Of the government, once brought
| TO the attention of responsible citizens.
| should not go on uncorrectcd."
! 'If women of prominence and irnu-
cncc." She continued. guilty of no Of
Tense other than asking for liberty
are to be treated with such brutality
/ It is difficult TO conceive the suffcrings
/ inflicted upon the moro helpless pris-
oners who arc at the mercy OF Mr.
! Whitaker. who states repeatedly that
J there are no rules at Uccuoquan but
his rules. and that his rules go"