Biography
Francis Fowler 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: February 1919: eight days in Charles Street Jail.
Updated Boston custody chronology: arrested and incarcerated February 24, 1919; sentenced February 25; released March 4, 1919. The dated stay is eight elapsed days. These dates follow the supplied record correction; earlier source notes are retained as historical background where accounts differ.
Updated Boston custody dates
Updated Boston custody chronology: arrested and incarcerated February 24, 1919; sentenced February 25; released March 4, 1919. The dated stay is eight elapsed days. These dates follow the supplied record correction; earlier source notes are retained as historical background where accounts differ.
Stevens records an eight-day Charles Street Jail sentence for the February 1919 Boston demonstration. It is an imposed term, not an explicit completed-custody report. The stored nominal-as-actual day override is removed; no unsupported admission or release endpoint is substituted.
James J. Kenneally identifies the Brookline suffrage demonstrator as Frances Fowler. His reconstruction of contemporary Boston newspapers reports that her hearing before Judge Wilfred A. Bolster was continued to February 27, 1919, when she pleaded not guilty and her case was placed on file. He distinguishes that account from suffrage histories assigning an eight-day Charles Street sentence; it does not establish a completed eight-day term or a precise physical discharge.
Kenneally, Historical Journal of Massachusetts 45(1), Winter 2017, printed pages 114–115 and note34.
