The New York herald., 1921-11-14
Birth Control Leader Is Held
With Miss Mary Winsor
for Trying to Speak.
NOTABLES IN AUDIENCE
Police Headquarters Instructs
Capt. DonOhOe's Men to
Shut Forum Building.

The police Of the West Forty
seventh street station. acting under
orders from Capt. Thomas Donohoe.
broke up meeting Of the American
Conference on Birth Control in the
Town Hall in West Fortyfourth
street last night, and arrested Mrs,
Margaret Sanger and Miss Mary
winsor for trying to make speeches.
A crowd of several thousand fol-
lowed Miss Winsor and Mrs. Sanger
to the police station and then to Night
Court, jeering and booing the police
and demanding that the women be
permitted to go ahead with their meet
ing. At times the meeting in the
Town Hall and the trouble outside the
building and through the streets
threatened to become riotous. but the
arrival Of the reserves prevented any
serious demonstration.
Capt. Donohoe would not say from
whom he had received his orders to
stop the meeting. excepting that they
reached him at 6 so o'clock last night
from Police Headquarters. Mrs Ann
Kennedy, one of the leaders in the birth
control movement and an aid of Mrs.
Sanger's for several years, said Mgr.
Joseph p. Dineen. secretary to Arch
bishop Patrick J. Hayes, went to the
Town Hall about Z 80 o'clock, and told
her that he had been sent there by
Archbishop Hayes, "as the meeting was
against the public morals and would
not be held"
Mgr Dineen also made this statement
to newspaper reporters. but did not say
whether the Archbishop had made the
had resulted In orders being sent to
Capt Donohoe to stop the meeting.
Two policemen appeared at the hall
some time before o'clock. when the
place was about half filled with men
and women. many of them prominent,
and including Mrs. Thomas w. Lamont
and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas L. Chad
bourne. Without telling the persons in
side the hall the policemen closed the
doors, and when any one tried to get in
they were told that the meeting had
been stopped.
Mrs. Reid Also Barred.
Mrs. Sanger. accompanied by Mrs.
Ogden Mills Reid, appeared at the en-
trance about o'clock. They were not
allowed to enter. the policeman telling
them that while he did not know why,
the captain of his station house had told
him that no one was to be allowed In
side.
Mrs. Sanger and Mrs. Reid and several
hundred others stood outside the Town
Hall, waiting. When the policemen
opened the doors to chase out the crowd
which already was inside. Mrs. Sanger
and some of her adherents pushed past
and got into the auditorium.
The policemen made no move to Mrs.
Sanger. with Mrs. Reid and Harry
Cox. formerly n member of the British
Parliament and one OF the principal
speakers at previous meetings of the
birth control conference. she went to the
stage She stepped forward and began
To speak, but had said only one word
when a policeman walked up to her and
clapped his hand over her mouth.
Mrs. Sanger broke away. pushed him
ava- anerilv and hurried to one side
OF the stage, the policeman following
grimm. 1ne crowd hissed and jeered
and booed the policeman. Mrs Sanger
again tried to speak and again the man
pr' ~ hard over her mouth
you can't speak," said the police
man. this ineelrug cannot he held"
Mrs nRer retorted that the con-
ference had paid $3.50 rent for the Town
Haa an4 that she intended 20 carry on
the meeting as It had been scheduled
she shouted for Capt Donohoe. and after
few minutes the commander of the
precinct reached the stage from the back
Of the hail. where he had been stand
ing AS Mrs. Sanger asked for him.
some one IN the hall shouted:
cops !"
Capt. Donohoe was obviously Ill at
ease and embarrassed when he went TO
the stage and was confronted by Mrs.
Sanger. The crowd, which was all In
favor Of Mrs. Sanger. jeered and hooted
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