Biography
Phoebe C. Munnecke 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. The exact day of her birth is unresolved. (1885 - November 13, 1955)
She was arrested on January 4, 1919 and released on bail. Re-arrested on January 5, she was refused bail and given ten days’ imprisonment, during which she joined a hunger strike. She was held in the House of Detention and District Jail system. A full term would have ended about January 15, but no discharge record has been located.
A further contempt sentence is recorded inconsistently: Irwin gives forty-eight hours, Stevens gives three days. Its date and duration therefore remain unresolved and no dates are entered for it.
The appendix separates a ten-day watchfire sentence from a later three-day contempt sentence. The existing contempt row preserves a forty-eight-hour versus three-day source dispute. Its ten-day actual override is unsupported by either contempt account.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 12.
