FIERCE ATTACK ON POLICE.
HOW SYLVIA ESCAPED
(Per Press::: Association—Copyright)
LONDONi October 14
There were hysterical scenes at Bow Baths, women screaming for protection while others hurled chairs at the police and dropped benches on their ;''heads from the gallery. The fight lasted a considerable time and police reinforcements were needed to control the situation. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested and placed in a taxi-cab. The crowd surrounded the cab in an endeavour to effect a rescue, and the police had to use their batons. Miss Pankhurst escaped in the melee.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8689, 15 October 1913, Page 5
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