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.
The appendix distinguishes the August 1918 fifteen-day and January 1919 five-day sentences from Heffelfinger’s October 1917 imprisonment. These later imposed terms were mentioned together in the earlier case narrative; they are recorded separately here without assigning physical arrest, admission or release dates or adding served time.
Stevens describes Heffelfinger of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, as an art student.
