New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-06
Women Seized
For Insult to
British Envov
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arrest Their number was so great
and their size so big that it was diff
cult to discern in their midst the
g'rllsh figures of the two prisoners as
the latter were escorted into the patrol
wagon. At one of the windows of the
great red brick embassy a somewhat
bored-looking attachc looked on.
Law Read tie Prisoners
At the police station the District
Attorney was on hand, as we'll as Mat
NEW y brlen, an attorney who de-
Tended the suffrage pickets a wear ago
Mr.. Laskey, the District Attorney. read
TO the prisoners Revised Statute No.
4ooZ, which makes it an oTcnsc to
assault the person of a foreign am
passador or attack an embassy Also
ne read an opinion delivered fifty years
ago, IN which the court construed this
statute as embracing an assault in the
form OF an insult. One of the banners
oelng carried by the pickets at the
time OF the arrest said: "America can
nave no relations with an England gov
erned by assassins," and this. observed
the District Attorney, was clearly and
conclsely an insult to the staff Of the
embassy.
The District Attorney warned tho
women that if they repeated tho o.
tense they would be dealt with to the
,uli extent and power of the law; that
nut Tor the fact that they had been
given insufficient warning prior TO this
they would have had to face the charqc
then and there
According to the policemen at tho
repeat it. NV W
More Recruits Sought
we did no such thing" declared
MISS Carroll later at her hotel and
Mrs. Walker was equally emphatic in
hcr denial. Both declared the picket
ing would be resumed tomorrow. Mrs
Corless, the leader Of the movement.
who believes that silence as to the
future is the first principle of strategy
would not say whether the picketiny
would or would not go on, although
she admitted she was seeking fresh
recruits.
The picketing started at noon to-day,
after lapse of two days, during which
the tlrst warning of the State Depart
raining bucketsful at the time. but
with paraso!s to help defy the elements
the first relay of women-Nrs. Walker
and Miss Helen Lyon Merriam-b ravclv
took up their patrol. Besides the ban
ner already quoted, others they carried
bore the inscriptions: "England must
stop her reign of terrorism in Ire
land; Down with English militar-
ism "Congress must stop the i'm
pending (the word impending had a
line drawn through itl massacre in
Ireland"
Explaining the erasure in the last
nt ,I>a
received advices from England to the
effect that wholesale massacres of Irish
had occurred in Ireland yesterday,
news of which had been suppressed bv
the censors. The State Department ex-
pressed doubt as to the authenticity
Of these cables.
Senator France Claimed as Ally
According to Mrs. Corless, Senator
France, of Maryland. had interested
himself in the reports of an impending
Irish massacre and had called up the
State Department to-day to see if
something could not be done by this
government to bring pressure to bear
on England to modify her policy Sen
ator France himself was not available
to verify this, but according to Mrs.
Corless, he was unable to talk with
any orc in authority at the department.
The incident of the torn banner oc-
CURED when the pickets had been on
duty hardly more than an hour The
women accused Of the attack we're
walking the street when they saw Nl
banner. According to Miss Hickey,
/ they both promptly tried to wrcst it
from her, and in the ensuing struggle
the placard was torn. Miss Hickey at
once summoned nearby policeman,
demanding the arrest Of the two
women.
Those taking part in the picketing
to-day besides those already named,
included Miss Martha Adams, Concord,
~ H.; Miss Sophie Shields, Newark,
\. j.; Miss Helen Grove, Chicago;
Miss Catherine Cody, Iowa; Mrs Jane s
Walsh, New York; Miss Mary Keena,
New York; Miss Jeanne Mclean, Mrs
Jcssica Granville Smith, New York,
and Miss Edith Ramsey, Brooklyn.