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Show SUFFRAGISTS ARE IN JAIL DRESS i V cbarin kpebpe Women Who Were in Bastile pJ?' Day Demonstration Put in . '(srvati Workhouse. i f 3" MAY FILE APPEAL Refuse to Pay Fines and Are r jfwou' Serving 60-day Sj Sentence. I fwntini ) jand ad WASHINGTON, July 18. Final de- cision was still pending today at suf- . draice frago headquarters on the question of j EL aj an appeal in the case of the sixteen ; a, suffragists sentenced to sixty days in . jail for participation in tho Bastille Jho day demonstration in front of the lfllpr White House. Garbed in tho heavy E one-piece prison dress, tho women ; Wgl were put to work this morning In the j sewing room of the District of Colum- jf 1 bia workhouse at Occoquan, Va. ,; Sp? r.l On thelr conviction in police court J SZV, yesterday the defendants were ordered 1, Pi fv to pay fines of $25 each. The refused, lJ however, and jail sentences were im- i P'in posed. Under the laws of the district t HU the prisoners have three days In which x jsPL to file notice of appeal and It is quite . ?? possible that this action will be taken. Dudley Field Malone, collector of r the port of New York, who testified in ' WC, behalf of the prisoners and conferred : s :, with President Wilson regarding the ' case, is reported to have tendered his : J '' resignation as collector In order to lv carry on the court fight for tho suf- .' J fraglsts. ' S j |