Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-19
WOMAN. WHOM
BRITISH DEPORT.
PREDICTS REVOLT
Lillian Scott Troy Reaches
Halifax on the( Steamer
Carmania
Bu Associated Press

Halifax. n. =. April 19.-Miss Lii
liam Scott Troy. of San Francisco. re-
Gently deported from England. ar
rived here last night on the steamer
Carmania, on her way to New York.
She will complete the trip on the
steamer which will leave for New
York to-day.
Miss Troy. whose alleged friend
ship for Baron Lewis Won Horst, for
merly of San Francisco. and informed
by the British government in AuEnsT,
1914, is understood to have been owe
of the causes for her deportation
was bitter in her denunCiatiun or
British officials. She declared that
she had been prosecuted by the Eng
lish police.
authorities first turned their atten-
tion to her because in 1912, while IA
dock strike was in progres in Lon
don. she fed thousand strikers
children weekly ct her own expense
in plant which she owned III the
East End She was made an honor
airy member Of the DockerS' Union.
Detectives on Trail
In 1914 Miss Troy said she dis
covered that she was being followed
by detectives. She complained at
scotland Yard and said she was lock-
ed in room with detective for
three hours, but that he did not ques-
tion her She asserted that on re-
ilUiiiE 10 H'I sue IOuHA
they had been thoroughly ransacked
by detectives. who. she added. found
nothing.
This treatment" she exclaimed.
was due to Il horrible attempted
blackmail scheme aimed ut Lady HI
ram Maxim. myself and Il well-known
prisoner or war. They got nothing
out of us. but l was foolish and went
crying about the thing"
She did not disclose the name OF
the prisoner OF war,
During the past four years" she
continued 81 have been always hunt
ed by agents Of Scotland Yard. Large
business interests kept me in Eng
land. and | have lost heavily. Several
times the American consul intervened
to save me. but the embassy rema in
ed apathetic
Hnd Been Ill
Il have been III for the past four
months and was only strong enough
to return to my thester a few weeks
ago. | was arrested ON April and
taken to Scotland Yard, | was not
allowed to communicate with my So
licitor or TO get any OF my belong
ings. ] had only eight shi'lings in
my pocketboolS. but my matron gave
me her savings. about twenty-four
pounds | wont through a medical
examination before six men. Then |
was placed un train closely guard
ed and had to sit NJ all night until
! reached Liverpool. where | was
placed aboard The Carmenia. 7 ask
ed the officials why they were deport-
ing me, kut they would give no an
swer.
'Srhey never had the courage to
make any definite charge against me.
They said that the Defense of the
Realm Act enabled them to depoTt
any one who might be classed. upon
the slightest grounds. as dangerous
to the nation.
4 am going to have all this mat
ter out when. | reach the United
states. England is something like
Russia now. when the secret police
used to go to the czar with manufac-
tured charges. | am convinced that
there is a revolution coming in Eng
land. and IL will he the fault of three
men in the executive department of
the police and two men in the admin
istrativc de-artment."