Why? To express their support for the suffrage prisoners already there, especially Alice Paul, being held in the jail’s psychopathic ward, and force-fed three times a day for being the “ringleader” of the “Silent Sentinel” pickets. Anna Kelton Wiley, Elizabeth Kent and Lucy Burns led their fellow visitors double-file to the warden’s office, where they demanded to talk to him.
When asked how she was doing, Paul replied: “Oh, I’m all right. I am being forcibly fed three times a day. It is worse than in England. There they feed you only twice. I am able to prevent them from giving me half of what they bring, but I have not the strength to prevent them from forcing me to take some.”
Officials at National Woman’s Party headquarters are telling of notes that Winslow has smuggled out of jail, calling prison conditions “frightful” and speaking of the torture of force-feeding, in which she and Alice Paul are held down while a rubber tube is forced into the throat and liquid poured in through a funnel.
The injustice of Alice Paul’s being held in the psychopathic ward became even more outrageous yesterday, when it was reported by Lavinia Dock that even Warden Zinkham doesn’t think she belongs there. He reportedly told Dock: “I have never met a more brilliant mind,” and “I shall be a subject for the psychopathic ward myself if there is not a let-up in the flood of protests I am receiving.”
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