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Show SIX III Mi TAKENJD JI N.EW YORK, March 4. Six women, members of th national women's party, were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after a battle tonight with policemen police-men in front of the Metropolitan opera house, where they had intended to sr.age a demonstration against President Wilson. Soon after they had been locked up at the West Thirtieth street station all of I hem wore released. Three of the women arrested were Miss Alice Paul and Miss Doris Stevens of New York and Elsie Hill of Norwalk, Conn. The other three gave their names as "Jane Doe." Fifty policemen charged down on a group of suffragists when they "started a demonstration, taking into custody the six most active agitators. They were booked to appear at the woman's night court, but when tho natrol wagon arrived to take them there the announcement came that they had been released. Whore the word to release the women came from or who stood sponsor lor it, no one connected with the police department would state tonight. The release of the six women was followed fol-lowed by a fight between a new parade of suffragis-ts and a mob of soldiers, sailors and civilians, who received reports that the suffragists intended to return to burn" copies of the president's speech. The clash came at Forty-first street and Sixth avenue, and an overseas veteran was laid out by a blow over the head, while Minna Bodenheim o New York was thrown to the pavement. The police finally quelled the disturbance at 11 o'clock. Miss Elsie Hill, leariinsr the returning women paraders, tysrhted two red torches and tried to burn part of President Wilson's Wil-son's speech. |