SUFFRAGETTE ROWDIES.
THE GUILDHALL INCIDENT.
PRESENTS FOR ASQUITH.
(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)
LONDON, November 11.
At the Guildhall Court to-day, Amelia Brown, no occupation, and Alice Paul, a student, were fined £5 and costs, or a month's imprisonment, for breaking a window of the Guildhall while the Lord Mayor's banquet was in progress. The evidence showed that they had obtained admission as charwomen, and participated in preparing the room for the banquet, and had then concealed themselves. When found they were in possession of a bottle of milk and a stomach-pump, which they intended to present to Mr. Asquith R3 an illustration of the forcible-feeding methods that had been applied to the suffragette hungerstrikers in gaol. The presiding alderman severely commented on the hysterical tactics of the suffragettes, and said there was no excuse for damaging the historic building.
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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 270, 12 November 1909, Page 5
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