Biography
Bertha Moller was a Minnesota member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. Her papers are held by the Minnesota Historical Society. (Recorded as Bertha Berglin Moller Delin; 1888-1951)
She was jailed twice. On January 15, 1919 she was held twenty-four hours for contempt of court, released the following day. Arrested again on January 27, she was sentenced on January 28 to five days; the exact release date is unresolved.
Custody record
Doris Stevens’s participant history Jailed for Freedom explicitly says Moller served two terms: twenty-four hours for applauding in court and five days for a January 1919 watchfire demonstration. The five served days are recorded independently of the still-unresolved final release date.
