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SEIZE PICKETS AT CAPITALMiss Alice Paul Among Women Arrested at White House.Washington, Aug. 7.—Police prevented the protest meeting of suffragists in Lafayette park, opposite the White House. As the chairman beganto speak, a squad of more than a dozen policemen rushed to tin* base of the monument to Marquis Lafayette, w here the opeakers were standing, and informed the women that they were under arrest. More than fifty arrests were made, among those taken being Miss Alice Paul, president of the National Woman’s party. The womenund their banners and regalia were hustle3 into patrol wagons and hurried to police headquarters. Later the police released all except those who had congregated at the place of meeting, only about forty being finally detained.
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The Watertown News
Watertown, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Aug 07, 1918
Page 5
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