The Washington herald., 1917-11-28
DUST PICKETS
FROM JAIL BY
COURTS ORDER
Twenty-Five Women Prison
ers Released Despite
Their Objections.

Despite their protests. twenty-five
surragists, picket prisoners and hun
ger strikers, were put out Of the Dis
trict Jail yesterday-released uncondi-
tionally.
They did not want to leave at first,
and their objection was so strenuous
that the warden threatened to call the
guards to throw them out.
When informed that their liberation
had been ordered officially, without
their having to finish their sentences,
they began a demonstration, vowing
it was a trick. and could not be per-
suaded to quit the Jail till assured
that the order was approved by the
National woman's Party.
It looked like a sad affair for War
den Zinkan for a while. He had
dropped his austerity on receipt of
the release order and was seen to
skip about his office, singing under his
breath. They're going away! They're
going away"
Prisoners Against Order.
When he returned from notifying
the prisoners of what he thought was
the best news he had had in many a
month, he was a crestfallen warden
and an angry one.
They say they won't CO." he fumed.
all his recent boyish elation turned to
baffled and almost spluttering wrath.
"Tu-Fu throw them-rn call the
guards and throw them out" he re-
peated, bit helpfessly.
Then a fleet Of automobiles appeared
in the ofing, bearing succor for the
harassed warden in the shape Of a suf-
frage rescuing party from Cameron
House, the party headquarters. and
these sufTragists persuaded their hum
ger-striking sisters that they might
quit the Jail with honor and eat again
without a tube.
Judge Mullowney stated that his
order was issued in compliance with
a representation from Superintendent
Zinkhan. of the District Jail, that
the health of the hunger strik-
ing pickets would be endangered
by further Imprisonment Some of
the pickets who were not hunger
striking were also in bad physical
condition and it was thought best
to include them in the release
Eight pickets are still at the Jail
SufIragists say that Supt Zinkhan
would also be released today.
Joyous but wObbIy.
1t was a joyous. albeit a wobbly
party that clambered into the wait
ing automobiles, for most Of them
were too faint to go to the cars with
out help, and five OF them had to be
taken fro mhospital beds and dressed
for their exodus. At the Cameron
House. they were put to bed again
and the others were feted with milk
and brandy sans hose.
President Wilson Passes.
In the midst Of the revelry. for
Cameron House held a jubilee OF
their claim of victory over the ad-
ministration, President Wilson pass
ed the house OF mirth in his car and
could not help hearing the feminine
babel
The order for the release Of the
prisoners. which still leaves eight in
the District Jail. was signed by
Judge Mullowney, who sentenced the
prisoners originally. Commenting on
the order, Miss Alice Paul. chair
man of the party. herself a hunger
striker of twenty-five days, said:
I'VE are put out Of Jail as we were
put mat the whim OF the govern
ment. Our prisoners at OccoQuan
were release from that institution
last Saturday on the court ruling
that they were Illegally confined.
Those Released
Those suffrage prisoners released
Yesterday afternoon are: Alice Paul,
Lucy Burns. Mrs. Lawrence Lewis.
Miss Kate Hefelfnger, Miss Rose
Winslow. Mrs. Agnes Morey. Miss
Cornelia Whitcomb, Miss Julia
Emory, Miss Paula jacob, Miss Lou
Daniels, Mrs. L. H. Hornsby. Miss
catherine Lincoln. Miss Elizabeth
McShane. Mrs. P. B. Johns, Miss Alice
Gram, Miss Betty Gram, Miss Ma
tilda Young. Miss Alice Cosu, Miss
Hattie Kruger. Miss Kate Stafford,
Miss Belle Sheinberg, Miss Minnie
Hennessy.
The suffrage pickets still in Jail
are: Miss Maude Jamison. Norfolk.
Va; Mrs. C. T. Robertson, Salt Lake
City; Mrs. r. B. Quay, Salt Lake
city: Miss Amy Jungling. Buffalo, N.
Y; Mrs. George Scoot, Montclair, N.
j.; Miss Dorothy Day, New York
City: Miss Ella Findeisen. Lawrence.
Mass: Miss Hilda Blumborg. New
York CITY