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Show 'FEDFjft OFFICES ! ; ARREGT PICKETS AT i BRITISH EMBftSSY' Government Takes Action to I Prevent Move By Wom-' Wom-' en Irish Republic j Sympathizers. . ! PICKETS GIVEN BATTLE ! I BEFORE POLICE ARRIVE i I j Women Warned of Felony , Charge For Insults to Dip-i Dip-i . lomalic Officials. Washington. April 5. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press). The fedoral government govern-ment moved today to put an end to the picketing of the British embassy, which was lenewed this morning b women sympathizers with tho movement move-ment for an Irish republic. United States District Attorney Las-key Las-key informed Matthew O'Brien, coun-' coun-' ol for the women, that if his clientr. j J persisted they would be prosecuted jiuder a federal statute which make the offering of an insult to a diplomatic diplo-matic representative of a foreign go-c-rnment or to his official residence, a felony punishable by a penitentiary sentence. Simultaneously. Mr. Laskey communicated com-municated his decision lo the District of Columbia commissioners, who in-: Mructed the police to arrest the worn en after warning them. Cantain Doyle and two police-women were sent to the I embassy in a patrol wagon and found Mrs. Mary Walker of Astoria, Long Island, and Miss Moliie Carroll of New York City, carrying banners on tho sidewalk. Captain Doyle informed the banner bearers that unless they left in fifteen fif-teen minutes they would be arrested fader federal statutes, but they refus-ci refus-ci to depart. After they had been taken tak-en to police headquarters and held foi half an hour, they were reloaaeu on .rders trom Mr. Laskey. The district attorney explained sub frequently that the police had acted before be-fore Mr. O'Brien had had time to not-ily not-ily his clients of the government's decision. de-cision. An hour before the police intervened Mrs. Sophie Stanton and Mrs. Hattie Lai kin. of this city, attacked two pickets pick-ets who had preceded Mrs. Walker and Miss Carroll, and were arrested or. charges of "disorderly conduct." They were released upon depositing a cash rorfeit of 525 each. Mrs. Walker and Miss Carroll were not replaced at the embassy after the police took them away and leaders of the movement would not say what were their plans for tomorrow. |