Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-25 | Page 4 | Salt Lake Picket Now in Hospital

SALT LAKE PICKET NOW IN HOSPITAL Mrs. C. T. Robertson Collapses; Col-lapses; Mrs R. B. Quay Sent to District Jail. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Mrs. R. B. Quay of Salt Lake City, one of the suffragette pickets sentenced to Occo-quan Occo-quan workhouse ou November 14, was today, in company with thirty other pickets, transferred, by court order, to the District of Columbia jail, where she will serve the romainder of her sentcute. Mrs. C. T. Eobertson of Salt Lake, suffering from her confinement at the jivorkhouse, has collapsed, and is now in the hospital attached to the workhouse, work-house, being too weak to be removed. Whether Mrs. Quay and Mrs. Bob'ert-son Bob'ert-son participated in the general hunger strike is not definitely known at suffrage suf-frage headquarters, hut most of the j pickets have refused to take food since 1 commitment. ! No specific explanation has been I given us to the causes of Mrs. Robertson's Robert-son's collapse, but it is believed to bo idue to lack of nourishment. As re-j re-j ported by other pickets, sue is in a very Iserious condition so serious that tho ! superintendent of the workhouse or-jdered or-jdered her removal to the hospital, j Mrs. Quay is standing her ordeal better, bet-ter, but. she is decidedly haggard and lias lost considerable weight, due, it is thought, to her participation in the hunger strike. i Removal of the pickets from the workhouse to the jail was directed by 'the Virginia courts today, and means :t!mt the suffragists during the reinain-i'ler reinain-i'ler of their confinement will be permitted per-mitted to wear their own clothing instead in-stead of prison garb, and cannot be compelled to perform convict or other hard labor. It is reported at suffrage headquarters headquar-ters tonight that the pickets confined at the jail will continue their hunger strike, unless thev are accorded the jrights of political prisouers.