THE REIGN OF TERROR.
CONSPIRACY CHARGE.
VIOLENT AND UNSCRUPULOUS,
" GENERAL >' DKTOEMOND'S TACTICS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) (Received 8.15 ajn.) LONDON, May 5. The charge of conspiracy against the suffragette leaders captured during the recent raid on the headquarters of the Women's Social and Political Union, was continued to-day. Mr Bodkin, who represented the prosecution, described Mrs "General" Drummond us violent and unscrupulous. Be said that Miss Annie Kenney made inflammatory speeches, and that Clayton, in return for payment, prostituted" his knowledge of science for the furtherance of crime, producing what their newspaper called a "reign of terror."
The documents showed that a man named Buckner, of Hamburg, wrote to .Miss Kerr, one of tbe defendants, explaining how to terrorise audiences by the use of a powder C3.using violent sneezing and severe irritation of the skin.
A boiab containing sufficient nitro-gly-cerine to wreck the building was found among the parcels of the Borough post office to-day.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 107, 6 May 1913, Page 5
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