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Show MRS. ETHEL BYRNE CONCLUDES TO LIVE Places Tube in Mouth to Take Nourishment; Nourish-ment; Other Propagandists Tried. NrFnv YORK. Jan. ;9 Two birth control con-trol propagandists, Mrs. Marrraret Sanger San-ger and Miss Fania Mondell, were tried in Brooklyn today for circulating their literature, while a third. Mrs." Ethel Byrne, sister of Mrs. Panirer. took food voluntarily for the first time as a prisoner on Blackwell's isiand. Mrs. Hvrne. while resuslne to accept nourishment from a glass, did aid in phi'-lnp a tube In her mouth, according to tlie prison authorities, and thus brought to a virtual close her 'hunger strike." begun last Monday and interrupted a few days ago when site was forced to eat. Pecision was reserved in the cases of Mrs. Sanger and Miss Mondell. The district dis-trict attorney and counsel for the women were given mull February 2 to submit briefs. The defendants announced they I would begin a "hunger strike" If convicted con-victed and sent to jail. Regat'diiig Mrs. Kyrne, a prison bulletin bulle-tin issued tonight sal 1 her pinsi.nl condition con-dition was eool and her mentai condition condi-tion "very souJ." |