THE OUTRAGETTES.
,: BOMBS AT BURNS' COTTAGE. i SCENES IN COURT. ; DOCTORS AND FORCIBLE FEEDING. (By Cable. — Tress Association. — Copyr gat.) (Received 10.20 a.m.) i » LONDON. -Tuly 9. i Mr llffrinabl McKenna. replyinfr to the ' protest of 70 doctors against forcible feeding, invited them \i> suggest an ■alternative moans of saving the Jives of i incendiaries persistently starving tliemI selves and not deserving release. ! The woman arrested while attempting to blow up .Robert Bums' birthplace at Ayr was dressed as a man. ! The nijrht. watchman seized one. Janet t Arthur, and a violet, struggle followed. I during which the other escaped. The bombs consisted of l.">in biscuit tins. ru.-Ii containing Sib of blasting powder, with 20ft fuses. Throughout the nijrlit the villagers of Alloway searched for the woman, who I fle,] on'a bieyi-le. i Tin- arre.stefl woman was very violent lin I lie cell, and alsu when before the i.ludii-e. She carried a considerable sum :of money. The other woman escaped on ; a bicycle. i •'YOtTU. PAY FOR ASQTJITH.' (Times and Sydney Sun Perrices.) LONDON. July n. Mary FJchard»on. a suffraarctte. called as a witness in the trial of other suffra-jeiU-s. complained that her mouth had been cut during forcible feeding. She shouted to the .Judge. "You'll pay the price for Asquith'g sin." The woman , was removed from the Court shouting and struggling.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 163, 10 July 1914, Page 5
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