The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-01-25
Third Day of Fast.

| Is the policy definitely decided upon BY
! Mrs. Byrne.
| Third Day of Fast.
! Il took the last food ! will take until
l am discharged from that hell hole OF
workhouse.' she declared yesterday
| morning before her removal to the
island. "On Monday ! had cup OF
! coffee. but since then not even glass
! OF water has crossed my lips. The hard.
| est part Of my fight is over--that OF
sustaining the hunger fight for three
days"
Jonah II. Goldstein. lawyer for the
birth control advocates, said that the
| application for a certificate of reasonable
doubt will be passed upon by Justice
Cropsey this morning at 10 O'Clock.
Mrs. Byrne. seated in the matron's
room Of the Tombs Jail awaiting the van
which carried her back to Blackwelrs,
was noticeably pale. Though she held
her head high, she talked with difficulty
of her conviction in the Kings Special
Sessions. The tantalizng odor Of food
fioated into the room from the women's
cell block. As Mrs. Byrne climbed into
the van with twenty other women and
about thirty men she called out to the
driver: Home, James,
She arrived at the island at II .15 and,
again attired in prison garb. was placed
in a cell next to the hospital. where she
is under the observation Of physicians.
Forced Feeding when Necessary.
DR.. Erma Ruth Howard. prison ply
sician. said last night that Mrs. Byrne's
condition was weak at o'clock: that
her heart. however was good but that
IL she continued the strike food would
be forced upon her.
Efforts are being made to prevent Mrs
Byrne from advertising her course. The
rules Of the Department of Correction
are strict concerning visitors to the
island. Burdette q. Lewis. Commits
sioner of Correction. said yesterday that
no information would be given out con-
cerning the progress OF the prisoners
hunger strike. He repeated that he was
not concerned as to whether or not the
5000 prisoners under his supervision ate
their meals.
III her condition becomes such that
medical attention is required, whatever
the consulting physicians advise will be
done for Mrs. Byrne.' said Mr., Lewis.
81 myself tasted fifteen days once and
felt better at the end of that time"
At the meeting of the Committee of
One Hundred. which took place in the
afternoon at the home of Mrs. w. Il.
Graves. Al Park avenue. Mrs. Sanger
coolly speculated as to the outcome OF a
hunger strike.
AT the end OF five days" she said
thoughtfully. my sister will be in a
state Of coma. II she continues to strike
she probably will last about ten days"
Collapse In Two Days.
Yes" she answered one OF the indig-
nant members of the committee. "a
callapse undoubtedly will injure her
health for some time TO come. But a
collapse will do more to repeal the law
which We are fighting than anything else.
My sister. when she took up tho cause.
said she was ready to die for it. Eight
thousand women have been killed already
by the law. II is worth while to fight
for its repeal"
About the time that the van took her
sister TO the island yesterday morning
Mrs. Sanger. in company with other
birth control advocates, stood at Pier &c
to see IL she could not catch a glimpse
of Mrs. Byrne before she went aboard
the boat.
Mrs, Juliette Rublee will start for
Washington this morning to try to get
an appointment with President Wilson
and persuade him to use his influence
toward the repeal OF the section of the
penal code under which Mrs. Byrne was
convicted. A committee of lve to per-
suade Gov, Whitman to urge the Legis-
lature to repeal the section also
was appointed. This committee; COM
posed OF Mrs. Amos Pinchot. Mrs. Louis
l.. Delafield. Miss Helen Todd, Miss Jes-
sic Ashley and Mrs. Maitland Briggs,
will go to Albany before the end of this
week.
\ meeting of the birth control advo-
Gates will take place at Carnegie Hall
next Monday. at which the people OF
the Brownsville section of Brooklyn who
are interested In the movement will be
invited to sit on the platform.