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.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning June 27, 1917: June 30, 1917, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 3 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Calculated release date
Calculated release date for the stay beginning June 27, 1917: June 30, 1917, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 3 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
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.
In chapter 9 of her 1920 firsthand account, Doris Stevens includes this suffragist among the named signers of the imprisoned women’s joint demand for political-prisoner treatment. The signers refused prison labor as a matter of principle and asked for access to counsel, correspondence, books, outside food and visits. Stevens reports that the authorities answered the petition by transferring its signers and Lucy Burns to the District Jail and placing them in solitary confinement. This describes a transfer within existing imprisonment, not an additional arrest or an independently measured custody term.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (1920), chapter 9 of Part III.
Inez Haynes Irwin records that on January 31, 1919 Mary Nolan was arrested at a suffrage watchfire demonstration with Mary Ingham and Annie Arniel. Nolan was discharged by the court. Ingham and Arniel were held in jail for two days before being brought to trial, then freed because there were no witnesses against them. Irwin describes this pretrial detention separately from the five-day sentences imposed at other watchfire demonstrations. Inez Haynes Irwin, The Story of the Woman’s Party (1921), printed page 401.
