New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-29
SAYS MRS. BYRNE
IS SINKING FAST
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Commissioner Of Correction with the
Mayor. II Mr. Lewis continued to re-
fuse him permission TO consult with
ms client
"Mr. Lewis gave me his home tele-
phone number and told me TO call him
I'D At any time. That's what I've been
doing all day. and every time they tell
me ne is out. That Sort Of nonsense
has got to STOP Mr.. Goldstein de-
c'ared.
THE idea Of their presumlng TO give
out such information as Mrs. Byrne
swallowed the tube Voluntarily II she
was not going to resist feeding wouldn't
She naturally take her food in the nat
ural way and not submit herself to all
this unpleasantness But Mrs. Sanger's
case comes up tomorrow, and it's go
ing 10 be fight 10 the finish. ! thought
when / tried Mrs. Byrne's case that l
would be as calm and agreeable as
possible. but there will be no soft stun
this time
Among others who tried to get into
communication with the Commissioner
yesterday was Miss s. Ada Flatman.
English suffragist. who gave the fol-
loving account OF her attempts:
81 called up Blackwells Island. They
r,ferred me to the Department Of Cor
rection. When / called there, they as
.ured me they knew nothing abouG
either Mrs. Byrne or the Commits
sioner-I would have to call the Police
Department. There they advised me
20 call up the Warden Of the Tomos'
sufragist Seeks Official
All the officials treated the matter
in A jocular manner, and spoke Of the
terrible suffering Mrs. Byrne Is en-
during as il il were Of no consequence.
finally ! got Commissioner Lewis's
home on the telephone. The woman who
answered said she was Mrs. Lewis
sister. but she mad no idea where l
could reach the Commissioner, nor
could she say when he would be home.
us he in New York? l asked. Yes,
came the answer, but he is of duty
Il then asked, When the Commits
sioner is away is there no deputy 70
take his place. No. was the answer.
That was all the satisfaction | got
AS for forcible feeding, / can say
this. that Englishmen, with all their
conservatism, were not so barbarous as
these American brutesA for when Eng
ish women first adopted the hunger
strike they were at least let out OF
prison at the end Of the hunger strike
when IL was found dangerous to keep
hem longer without food"
letter Of protest against Mrs.
Byrne's sentence and Imprisonment was
sent TO Governor Whitman by the
Rochester Birth Control League, ask
ing him TO use his influence against
The further persecution of the noble
women who are leading the birth con
'rol movement"
Mrs. Amos Pinchot, on behalf Of the
Committee OF One Hundred, sent let
Ter TO Mayor Mitchell, which reads, in
mart: your remarks as quoted in the
afternoon papers Of January % with
reference to the Sunday closing laws
rave impressed me very much as being
equally applicable to the dissemination
Of information concerning birth con-
'rol. May ! respectfully ask for an
appointmont, when a committee or our
Committee of One Hundred may call
Upon you in reference 10 this matter
Two little girls will learn to-day that
their mother is IN prison hospital.
Olive and Jessie Byrne are waiting
Tor a letter from Mrs. Ethel Byrne. In
e
hem that she has an apartment home
I'D ready for them, as she had planned,
they will be told of the jail sentence
and their mothers refusal TO take nour.
'hmcnt-
Mrs Byrne's sister explained that
she feels the children should know
about their mother and understand hel
motives.
Five hundred Brownsville mothers
wheeling their baby carriages, viii
GATHER at 46 Amboy Street, Brooklyn
The former home Of the birth control
clinic. this morning and meet Mrs
Sanger. whom they will escort 10 court.
After leaving the courtroom the
Brownsville mothers will go TO Car
negie Hall for the meeting and there
be seated on the platform.
Mrs. Sanger Prepares
If Mrs. Byrne is freed by tonight,
aid DR.. Frederick A. Blossom, presl.
dent Of the Birth Control League OF
New York, "she will be carried 70 hel
seat on the platform on a stretcher.
Both Mrs. Sanger and her assistant
Miss Mindell, expect 70 be sentenced
and have made arrangements to get out
vrits of habess corpus in order TO en-
pie them TO attend lne meeting
The Birth Control Review contain
ing articles by Mrs. Sanger, Ii. e.
Wells. Professor Scott Nearing, the
Rev John Haynes Holmes and Havelock
Ellis. will be distributed at the meet
iug, and Dr.. Blossom said he wa ex
pecting police interference.
Among the boxholders are Mrs. Au-
gusta p. Hope (six reserved for The
Judges who sentenced Mrs. Byrne, Dis
trict Attorney Lewis of Kings County
and all his assistants who weIe instru-
mental in securing the conviction,
Miss Irene Bigelow, Or. William J,
Robinson. Mrs. Lewis A. Delafeld. Mrs
William Colt. Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes
Mrs Marion Cothren. the Rev. Percy
Stcknev Grant and DR.. George Hunt