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Kate Heffelfinger

Released
Date of birth:27. 11. 1889
Date of death:01. 09. 1958
Age:68† Deceased
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Support
Women's suffrage
Kate Heffelfinger

Biography

Kate Heffelfinger was a 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. Doris Stevens recorded her term as: October 15, 1917: six-month sentence, with another month later added; August 1918: 15 days; January 1919: five days.

Stevens records six months imposed on October 15, 1917, another month added for an earlier offense, and later fifteen-day and five-day sentences. The passage never reports 180 days actually served; the existing override converts one nominal six-month term into days. The stored nominal-as-actual day override is removed; no unsupported admission or release endpoint is substituted.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 8.

Case

Incarcerated: Oct 15, 1917
Sentence: October 15, 1917: six-month sentence, with another month later added; August 1918: 15 days; January 1919: five days.