Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913 was viewed as violating basic human rights, not only of the suffragettes but of other prisoners. The Act's nickname of "Cat and Mouse Act", referring to the way the government seemed to play with prisoners as a cat may with a captured mouse, underlined how the cruelty of repeated releases and re-imprisonments turned the suffragettes from targets of scorn to objects of sympathy. The Asquith government's implementation of the Act caused the militant WSPU and the suffragettes to perceive Asquith as the enemy — an enemy to be vanquished in what the organisation saw as an all-out war. A related
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