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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday March 25 1914
Walsenburg, Colorado – Mother Jones Held in Cold Cellar Cell
From The Rocky Mountain News of March 24, 1914:
“Mother Jones Held Prisoner in Dingy Jail”
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones re Walsenburg Cellar Cell, Mar 23, 1914 x26 days,
Ab Chp 21, 1925
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/21/
The Rocky Mountains News
(Denver, Colorado)
-Mar 24, 1914
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C601A5C4B97518@GB3NEWS-147A0A74DB8862B8@2420216-1477B8E506C3D3A8@6-1477B8E506C3D3A8
See also:
Moyer v. Peabody, 212 U.S. 78 (1909)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyer_v._Peabody
Walsenburg, Colorado – Mother Jones Taken from Train and Arrested by Militia
Tag: Military Despotism Colorado 1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/military-despotism-colorado-1914/
Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1913-1914/
More on Mother Jones in the Military Bastille at Walsenburg
In her Autobiography, Mother Jones described her arrest and imprisonment at the hands of the military commanded by Governor Ammons, Democrat of Colorado:
I stayed on a week in Denver. Then I got a ticket and sleeper for Trinidad. Across the aisle from me was Reno, Rockefeller’s detective. Very early in the morning [5:30 AM, March 23, 1914], soldiers awakened me.
“Get up,” they said “and get off at the next stop!”
I got up, of course, and with the soldiers I got off at Walsenburg, fifty miles from Trinidad. The engineer and the fireman left their train when they saw the soldiers putting me off.
“What are you going to do with that old woman?” they said. “We won’t run the train till we know!”
The soldiers did not reply.
“Boys” I said, “go back on your engine. Some day it will be all right.”
Tears came trickling down their cheeks, and when they wiped them away, there were long, black streaks on their faces.
I was put in the cellar under the courthouse. It was a cold, terrible place, without heat, damp and dark. I slept in my clothes by day, and at night I fought great sewer rats with a beer bottle. “If I were out of this dungeon,” thought I, “I would be fighting the human sewer rats anyway!”
[Drawing and emphasis added.]
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
-ed by Mary Field Parton
Charles H Kerr Pub, 1925
Chapter 21-“In Rockefeller’s Prisons”
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/21/
Mother Jones, Colorado Military Bastile, March 23, 1914 (x26 days) https://archive.org/stream/ludlowmassacrere00finkrich#page/84/mode/1up
Note: Confinement in this same cellar cell had recently resulted in the death of striking miner, Kostas Markos.
Buried Unsung
Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
-by Zeese Papanikolas
U of Nebraska Press, 1991
https://archive.org/details/buriedunsungloui0000papa/mode/1up?view=theater
Search: markos
https://archive.org/details/buriedunsungloui0000papa/mode/1up?view=theater&q=markos
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