Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — SUFFRAGISTS RIOT IN JAIL [ARTICLE]

SUFFRAGISTS RIOT IN JAIL

Seventeen White House Pickets Battle With Negresses. Washington. Oct. 5. Seventeen members of the woman’s party, now in the Occoquan workhouse for picketing the White House, are bruised and scratched as the result of a free-for-all scramble when the authorities removed one of their number to the hospital without giving notice of her destination, and the other pickets formed a flying wedge to rescue their comrade. During the melee, it is said, some CO negro women, also prisoners at the workhouse, went to the rescue of the keepers, and details of the battle as It was waged vary. The mix-up has resulted in new charges being laid by the pickets against the conduct of the workhouse. One account of the melee is that it verged on being a race riot.