THE SUFFRAGETTES. MRS. PANKHURST ARRESTED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 25 February 1913, Page 7

THE SUFFRAGETTES. MRS. PANKHURST ARRESTED

WALTON OUTRAGE , CHARGE OF INCtf EMENT TO Crime. By Tolegubh.-Pre** AMockttdtt.-Copyriiliti (Received February 26, 10 a,m.) LONDON, 24th February. Mrs. Pankhurst is to be charged under the Malicious Damage to Property Act, with incitement, in connection with' the outrage at Wa-lton-on-Hill, where a house, to be used by Mr. Lloyd George (Chancellor of tho Excheqaw), was wrecked. She has been arrested and removed to Epsom. [Mr?, Pankhurst has publicly on two occasions accepted responsibility for recent outrages. Speaking in the Chelsea Town Half, she said :— "lt is wrong that the women who committed the offences are sent to pmoh while t, who incited them, am free ! How is the Government going to end it?"] "HUNGER STRIKE." LILIAN' LENTON RELEASED. (Received February 25, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 24th February. Lilian Lenton, one of the two young women arrested for the Kew Gardens tea-room outrage, has been released from prison. She was in a state of collapse, having refused to take food. DAMAGE DONE LAST WIEK. DARING THe"aUTHORITIEB. SPEAKERS REFUSED A HEARING. LONDON, 24th February. Suffragettes did £6000 worth of damage last week. Miss Annie Kenny, speaking at Bow, ( dared the authorities to allow women t* die in prison. In the event of its doihg so, it would make militants by the hundred*. Mrs. Deap&rd was forced to abandon a meeting at Thornton Heath, and other suffragettes were refused a hearing at Wimbledon. A party bearing sandwich boards at Preston waa pelted with eggs and refuse, and obliged to take shelter in shops. Seats on Hampstead Heath were sten. cilled with green paint, "Votes for women!" The paint damaged visitor* 1 dresses. Signal wires were cut on the Great Western railway at Newport. The Daily Citieen g&yg the public tern* per is rising against Mrs. Pankhuret'a militancy. The present methods are in» juring the cause more than the Miti-suf-frage leagues are.