BIRTH CONTROL
A WOMAN’S PROTEST
(Australian Press Association.) London, November 20.
Miss Elizabeth Ellis, a well-dressed confectioner, aged thirty-four, called at the Bradford Police Station, and said: “I have set fire to the birth control van.” Her action was apparently _ due to conscientious objections to the circulation of birth control pamphlets not only among married, but among single women, as a portion of the activities of the Society for Constructive Birth Control, with influential headquarters in London, under the presidency of Mrs. Marie Stopes. The van tours the country under the supervision of two certificated midwives. Miss Ellis broke a window, poured in paraffin, and ignited the vehicle. ■ The fire went out after the curtain was. burnt. Miss Ellis was charged with malicious damage, and pleaded guilty, She announced that she would repeat the performance if Mrs. Stopes- was not dealt with as a lawbreaker. The defendant was fined 10s., and ordered to pay 10s. damages, in the alternative eleven days’ imprisonment. She refused to pay, announcing that she preferred gaol, but her sister discharged the fine.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 50, 22 November 1928, Page 9
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