Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913 impact of the Cat and Mouse Act will never be known. Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913 The Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act, commonly referred to as the Cat and Mouse Act, was an Act of Parliament passed in Britain under Herbert Henry Asquith's Liberal government in 1913. Some members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU, commonly referred to as suffragettes) had been imprisoned for acts of vandalism in support of women's suffrage. In protest at being imprisoned some of the suffragettes undertook hunger strikes. The hunger strikers were then force-fed by the prison
Cat and Mouse (Ralph Williams story) web site. In that letter, the son reports that his father's actual name was Ralph William Slone and that he died in 1959 (at age 45) while fishing on Kachemak Bay (in Alaska). "Cat and Mouse" was the last of Williams' stories to be published. More detail on his publication history can be found at his listing in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (for which see the External Links section below). Cat and Mouse (Ralph Williams story) "Cat and Mouse" is a science fiction novelette by Ralph Williams. Originally published in the June 1959 issue of "Astounding Science Fiction", it