Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-01-15 | Page 3 | Pankhurst is Held by Immigration Officials

I I IT IS IS HELD HELO BY IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS OFFICIALS J NEW YORK Jan 15 15 Mrs Emmeline p t the British suffrage leader was held at Ellis Island immigration station today when she arrived here liere on the steamship St. St Paul Federal authorities said Mrs Pank- Pank hurst hurst was detained because she had served a a. sentence in ina a British prison Mrs is accompanied by her secretary Miss Joan Wickham Makes Sharp Protest Mrs and her secretary Miss Miss' Joan Wickham were walking down do the St. St Pauls Paul's gangplank when an Immigration officer informed the suffrage leader that she would have to go go glo to Ellis Ems Island She protested vigorously but the official explained that she was subject to the federal statutes barring aliens convicted of or crimes involving moral turpitude Mrs declared that she ehe had not come in connection with suffrage suffrage suf suf- frage but that she came carne expressly at atthe atthe atthe the request of former Serbian minister of state and andI foreign att affairs irs who is now head of or the I Serbian r relief commission