VIOLENT WOMEN.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 132, 10 July 1914, Page 7

VIOLENT WOMEN.

SUFFRAGETTES AT COURT. "Timer" and "Sydney ■ Sun" Services. I LONDON, July 8. The suffragettes who attempted to burn Burns's cottage at Ayr wore stockings over their boots, and men's caps. Janet Arthur, one-of the women arrested, was very violent in her cell, and also before the judge. She carried a considerable gum of money. The other woman escaped on a bicycle. Mary Richardson, a suffragette, called as a witness at the trial of other suffragettes, after complaining that her mouth had been cut as a result of forcible feeding, yelled at the Judge: "You'll pay the price of Mr Asrpiith's sin." She was removed from the Court, yelling and struggling.

FORCIBLE FEEDING. A PROTEST AND A REPLY. (Received July' 10, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. The Rt. Hon. Reginald M'Kenna, Home Secretary, replying to the repre-sentation-from seventy doctors who proit sted against forcible feeding, invites taem to suggest an alternative means ol: saving the lives of incendiaries who persistently starve themselves, but do not deserve to be released. IN MEN'S ATTIRE. THE DEADLY BOMB. (Received June 10, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. The woman arrested at Burns's birthplace was dressed as a man. The night watchman seized Janet Arthur,-after a violent struggle, in which the other woman escaped. The bombs consisted of lifteen-inch biscuit tins, each containing eight pounds of blasting powder, and a twenty-foot fuse. Throughout the night the villagers searched for the woman who fled on a bicycle.