The Washington times., 1920-04-06
-FOUR more IRISH
RCKETS ARRESTED
Women Refuse Release on Bail
When Taken to Police
Headquarters.
tcOntinued from first Psge.l


OF 1915 and OF other Disturbances also
were listed individually.
Drastic steps 20 test the legality OF
(pieketing In front OF an embassy, con-
sulate or home OF foreign diplomat. il
TO be made this afternoon through
arrests of some OF the women and
girls expected to picket In front OF
the British embassy in the interest Of
Irish freedom.
Instructions emanatinR, IL Is said,
from the District Attorneys .ofticc.
have been given Captain Doyle, OF the
Third police precinct. to; make the
arrests IL women and girls are found
pioketlng in front of the British en-
bassy.
To insure trial OF the picketers in
Police Court, II was ssaid those ar
rested would be held in heavy bonds,
IL being believed that II small col
lateral is asked the picketsrs taken
into custody will forfeit same, while
when oAt- on heavier bonds Win re-
spond TO their trial in Police Court,
Arrive TO Pick<t. g- -...-.
The following women have. regis
tered at the headquarters at the La
Fayette Hotel as volunteers for pick
citing or other duty in connection
with the demonstrations planned:
Mrs. Harry Walker, Astoria, l.. l.;
Miss Mary Keena, New York; Mrs.
James Walsh, N. Y; Mrs. w. IL. Ciag-
gett, st. Louis; Miss Helen O'Brien,
st. Louis: Mrs. Honor Walsh, and
Miss Elaine Barrie. Germantown,
Pa; Miss Helene Laird, and Miss
Mary; Calvin, Miss Katherine Nc
Keon. and Kathleen O'Brien, Elsie
o'Shea, Phiiadelphia, Pa; Miss LARA
TT. Do
Mclean, Miss Helen Grove, a Miss
Sills and a Mrs. Tuckerman, of New
YORK city; Miss NJ Duffy, o. Newark.
N. j., and Miss Mollie Carroll. OF
Boston. "a ~
Women Are Arrested.
The picketing at the embassy yes
terday was stopped late in the after
noon by the police, acting under the
instructions of District Attorney
Laskey, who arrested two women car
rying banners at the time. This ac-
tion followed an . attack on Mrs.
Margaret, Z. Steele. of Brooklyn, an
other picket, by two fashionably
dressed women, one of whom tore up
a banner Mrs. Steele had been dis
playing.
The woman who tore the banner
gave her name as Mrs. Arthur Lark
ing, of the Farnsborough apartments.
She SAID she was American porn put
had married an Englishman. She and
her companion. who said she YVES
Miss Sophie Stanton. q desce ndant OF
Edwin M Stanton, Secretary OF War
under President Lincoln. were arrest
ed and released in $25 bail each, for
trial this morning on charges Of dis
orderly conduct.
Came Frem Machine.
The two women drove past the
pickets in an automobile several
times before finally stopping the ma
chine, and alighting. at 2:10 o'clock.
Mrs. LarlSing then rushed :, at. Mrs.
Steele. exclafming, 81 am an English
woman and you are insuiting all
English women She then seized and
tore the banner borne by Mrs. Steele,
which reada-t -v-asss- 1HSs vi T-~ ~f
"Engiand, American Women Con-
denim Your Reign of Terror Ing the
Recog nized Irish Republic" ""s+.-SsssI -
Miss Stanton at the same- time
rushed at Miss Mary Keena, 4Tay-
haired woman, of New York city, and
attempted to Aize her banHier, but
was arrested before she SUGGESTED In
doing so. Miss Keena's banner said:
England. Hands OFF Irish Women"
AS she was being taken to the police
station, Mrs. Larking announced she
would call upon the British govern
ment for protection.
Soon after this episode, Miss Mollie