SUFFRAGISTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 October 1908, Page 7

SUFFRAGISTS.

LEADERS CHARGED AT BOW STREET. LIBERAL ADVISERS. MINISTERS 1 AS' WITNESSES. (by TELIOKAM —rilias ASSOCIATION—CUI'IKIOHt.I (Rec. Ootober 22, 11.30 p.m.) London, Octobor 22. The hearing of the cases against tho suffragists was continued at tho Bow Street Police Court. Miss Christabel. Pankhurst elicited from Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of tho Exchequer, that ho was present at the Trafalgar Square meeting on October 11. Mr. LloydGoorge in ovidonce said he considered tho demonstrations .formidable, and thought tho suffragists' appeal to tho public to rush the House of Commons was very serious. Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Homo Secretary, was also examined. Ho thought that the proposed rushing of tho House of Commons meant the employment of forco. Tho result of the suffragist demonstration against the House of Commons was 37 arrests and tho theft of. 40 watohes and purses. Defendants insisted that Liberal statesmen had encouraged the suffragists to adopt tho lino of action tlioy had followed. Hearing of tho cases was further adjourned. The cases referred to are no doubt those against Mrs. Pankhurst, Miss Christabol Pankhurst, and Mrs. Drummond, who ignored a summons to appear'at the Bow Street Police Court on a charge of trying to provoke a,breach of the peace in connection with the proposed rushing of the House of Commons. They .were then arrested, but were admitted to bail pending , trial. Most notable among: the words of advice given by Liberal Ministers to suffragists were those of the late Sit Henry Cainpliell-Banner-nian, to "keep on pestering people." Tho suffragists have never forgotten that suggestion.