The Arrest of Mother Jones

Mother Jones’ involvement with the strike would have her arrested on February 13, 1913. She was charged in a military court for inciting a riot by attempting to read the U.S. Constitution and conspiracy to commit murder.

She had attempted and succeeded to get a note to U. S. Senator John W. Kern and the editor of the Labor Argus, Charles H. Boswell who was sympathetic to the cause of the miners.

She refused to recognize the authority of the Court over her and refused to give a plea in her case. Jones was then sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. However, she developed pneumonia and was sent to Charleston, West Virginia for medical treatment. Then she was placed on house arrest in Pratt, West Virginia in Mrs. Carney’s Boarding House.

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