RIGHTS OF PETITIONERS.
SUFFRAGETTES FiNED AT BOWSTREET. MAGISTRATE AGREES TO STATE A CASE FOR APPEAL. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received September 4, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, 3rd September. Mr. Curtis Bennett, the magistrate at j the Bow-street Police Court, fined Mrs. Despard and seven other suifragettes, charged with creating a disturbance in attempting to present a petition to the Prime Minister thirty shillings each. His Worship agreed to state a case for appeal, in order to test the question of the suffragettes' right to present peti- , tions to the Prime Minister. Mr. Tim Healy in this case made a very able defence. He maintained thai, his clients were entitled constitutionally to present a petition to the Sovereign or the Sovereign's chief officer, and contrasted the toleration allowed by the Trade Unions Act to powerful combinations in regard to assembling outside factories with the treatment meted out to these ladies, standing day by day in all weathers, humbly asking for the vote. Would a British jury blame them, he asked, or a man for refusing to see | them ? If defendants had gone to applaud Mr. Asquith, or the Liberal party, jor the Budget, Mr. Healy said, they would not have been removed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 57, 4 September 1909, Page 5
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