Annie Arniel

Released

Full name:Annie Melvin Arniel

Date of birth:25. 07. 1873

Date of death:29. 12. 1924

Age:51^{† Deceased}

Gender:Female

Race:White

Era:1910s

State:Delaware

Time Imprisoned:

3 Months 12 Days

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Biography

Annie Arniel was a Delaware factory worker and one of the most frequently jailed Silent Sentinels picketing for women's suffrage. Arniel served multiple terms in the District Jail and at the Occoquan Workhouse throughout 1917–1919 and joined hunger strikes; she was force-fed by guards.

Stevens explicitly itemizes eight served sentences: three days in June 1917, sixty at Occoquan in August–September 1917, fifteen in August 1918, and five separate five-day stays in January–February 1919. Their sum remains 103 documented days. The existing June case previously carried that aggregate; this reconciliation assigns three to that first case and the remaining 100 to seven separate stays, without inventing exact endpoints.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 354.

Cases

District Jail / Occoquan Workhouse

Charges: Obstructing traffic (picketing the White House).

Arrested: Jun 26, 1917

Incarcerated: Jun 27, 1917

Sentence: Three days actually served in June 1917, according to Stevens. The previous 103-day entry was an aggregate covering eight distinct 1917–1919 stays; it is now distributed across those stays. Existing June 27 admission preserved; no discharge date inferred.

Institution State: District of Columbia

Charges: 1917 suffrage picketing

Sentence: The appendix expressly records sixty days served at Occoquan during August–September 1917; exact endpoints unresolved.

Convicted: Yes

Charges: August 1918 Lafayette Square suffrage meeting

Sentence: The appendix expressly records fifteen days served for the August 1918 Lafayette Square meeting; exact endpoints unresolved.

Convicted: Yes

Charges: January–February 1919 suffrage watchfire demonstrations