MILITANT IN PRISON.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 7

MILITANT IN PRISON.

BISHOPS INTBRESfING VISIT,

Acting upon his recent premise to a aeputatiou from the Women's Social and Political Union, tLe Bishop of London visited Hoiloway Gaol svith a rie\i- of aseertaimng the condition, of Miss Peace, a militant prisoner, whoso healUi. wasstated to have b«eemo aifw.ted as tho result of forcible feeding. Tμ Bishop's loply t<l the o-ii-e menrbej; of tho depuIfttioh who inteiTiewcd him states :— "I fmiHti Miss .Poace, wlm liad, of course, no idea thai i. was coining, lying on a t'o-infoftaLki bed, fully <lrfts«ocl, in a ivelMvarnied- cell nividi larger tJiati those I have been accustomed to see in 'th-o prisons I have visited. Her face \vas fully r«indfid and showed mo signs of oteKciivtfon or distress, exuept that it was a little pale, I was introduced to tiov by the Governor, who tliett left tlm cell, iShe ceffljihiiiied <>t' aiid ,, also some tliswnii'ort , in her lower lunlss, which made her distnelincd to avail kenfceif of tho leave given lier. 1 a-skiti h.er whether she had over sliriefted, as described,' Si-JD said that she may have uttered m\(?. exclamation onco, but that, she had never shrieked , . "Had she ever been put in a padded cell?— Certainly not. '''Did &fco ttnnpla.m of !ior tre-atiHeu-t-. in aay n'ay f—l es, her caniplaint was this: That- though she had served quiet-' ly two S6»t«»e«B, oiio of sis numtlis and J one of tliroo mouths, an<l again had be- j haved. well during this term of itiipri6oumei.it., sho wiis iK't laleased as others wore under the new Act, and tihat this is why sio now felt aggrieved. Slits sold she would promise to observe thu condi« t-kffis of. any license uiulef. wljkh slio might ibft rekasfd. "1 then went- straight t« tl-is* Home OfMce. i. pleudfd tluit Slisii I'enw, in view of- her good cuiuliicl in the priMi-u, and hot prcmiisc to abide b.v tho twins of hw licnii.sb, inig'it lw relrawd. vilidf-i , tlio lwvv Aut, 'fin* 1 lento . HemHiiv.y, though lift wa-s evjdentl.v Most suixioirs to snow elo-nuiiK'A i.o. Uio prissoßcr, fo.lt i~Ua.li lit , ! could not uct'ed.a U) this iipislicatton. Mo repeated his willingness i.(> adviso her absolute relfcase if siiie would give a. promise to refrain for the future' from ctttaß. Ske said nothing whatever id ©e abaui forcible feeding-"-