"NO WOMEN TO BE ADMITTED"

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 48, 25 February 1913, Page 11

"NO WOMEN TO BE ADMITTED"

DRASTIC DECISION AT THE OLJ3 BAILEY. ■Trom Our Lady Correspondent. ) LONDON , , .Tanuan- 17. Oo".. the very evp of the Franchiz-e EU.'iifSen there i> much talk—that thoeintereeted be prepared for either failure or E^ccesg —of the wonderful strid , made br women on all sid<6 in the pa*; fifty years, ha? arisen a siti:ition which 63T*our5 of the bad old days entirely, and iiae called forth protects from men and wonitn on all side=.

Xo excuse is urgej by con.stitutiona! safragists for the raid- on piiLar lionp:. sad fire alarm?, carried on; by tlic militanti, but, eino three of were well-kncAvii enthusiasts, numbers of suffragists ui.-hed to he present at their trial and went to the Old Bailey. Here they were refused admittance, arai for no other reason than that orders isd been issued that "no women were to & present/" ' There has ne\cr been an attempt. .1' far as is known. 011 the part of women in my court of justice iv Knjdand to create i serious disturbance—eve-n if eueh a ying were . pccsible !n a sphere a<s jeopled by police as these are—and the order i= stigmatised a gross injustice to women citizen.-. Theec are supposed to haye the same privilege* as men in sitna-sing all but casee that involve the pestion of indecency, and it is pleaded ftai the unkindliness os compefling "men to stand their trial with none oat men around them is as unneceesary sait s unreasonable.

It is an interesting fact that three of We prisoners conducted their own derence, one doing this with such conspicuous ability that the judge eoiun-atu-Wed her heartily before passing sentence. 6

it is aieo-interesting to note that Wen oa one occasion in the past an at»npt ttm made to explllde WO men from & C , the Lord Chief Justice re**f the official, with the remark tint « »ny public court women have a right » be present, the court being, if anyMtoward ever arose, perfectly °mc of protecting itself. Wth- the writer was peremptorily SL 3d ?l ,tta r t0 the old Church i n the Temple, thoueh usually open during the sitting, £ S i WM fMred that ? ettes break the windows! Th-v have