MORE MARTYRS.
SUFFRAGIST LEADERS CHOOSE GAOL. SOBS IN COURT. DEMONSTRATION BY SYMPATHISERS. (HI TELEGRArn—PItESS ASSOCIATION—COriRIQUT.I London, October 25. The adjourned hearing of • the charges against the suffragist loaders, Mrs. Pankhurst, Mrs. Drummond, and Miss Christabcl Pankhurst, of having actocl in a manner calculated to proyoke a breach of tho peace in urging women suffragists and their sympathisers to rush the House of Commons, was resumed yesterday at the Bow Street 'Police Court. After hearing twenty-seven witnesses, Mr. Curtis Bennett, the magistrate, refused to permit waste of time of tho'Court in listening to a further string of evidence testifying to the orderly nature of tho suffragist crowd on tho date in London. Ho bound Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs. Drummond in' tho sum of £200 each to keep tho peace for a year; in the alternative, three months' imprisonment. Miss Christabel Pankhurst was fined £100, with the alternative of ten weeks' imprisonment. Miss Pankhurst made an emotional speech of an hour's length, and burst into tears. .Mrs. Pankhurst also sobbed when concluding an address, . After the magistrate's sentence the prisoners dramatically clected to go to prison. The officials failed to suppress a loud and continued suffragist demonstration in Court.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 338, 27 October 1908, Page 7
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