HOSTILE CROWD MRS. PANKHURST HISSED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 7

HOSTILE CROWD MRS. PANKHURST HISSED

APPEARANCE BEFORE EPSOM POLICE COURT *-■»> > CHARGE OF JNCrTEMENT. By Telegraph.— Press Association .-Copyrlghti (Received February 26, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 25th February, There was a large crowd at the Epßom Police Court awaiting the appearance of Mrs. Pankhurst to answer a charge, under the Malicious Damage to Property, Act, of inciting to crime. There were eheera (by suffragettes) and hisees, tho latter preponderating* Mrs. Pankhurst was remanded, bail being granted, SUFFRAGETTES PELTED* LETTERS IN PILLAR-BOXES SET OH i FIRE. (Received February 26, 10.7 a.m.) LONDON, 25th February.. A mob pelted suffragettes at Croydon with tomatoes and egge, and smashed the windows of their headquarters. Letters in a Forest Hill pillar-box we»* set on fire by suffragettes. RELEASE OF LILIAN LENXOn. MAKING THE CRIMINAL LAW, AS FARCE. (Received February 26, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, 25th February. The Daily Chronicle states that fch» release of Lilian Lenton, One of the two young women charged witfi the Kew Gardens tea room outrage, and who reached a state of collapse owing to her refusal to take food, makes the criminal law a farce, SUCCESSION OF FIGHTS. MR. JOHN BURNS INTERRUPTED; HE MEANS TcTbREAK DOWN TYRANNY. LONDON*, 25th February. On Sunday last a suffragette meeting in the Pavilion Music Hall developed into a succession of fighte wTth wale interrupters, who successfully resisted ejectment. Mrs. Drummond, in appealing for con* tributions to the fighting fuad, aaid thab she did not require gunpowder. One gift promised wab a quantity o£ paraffin. Another speaker declared, that tho Pankhursfc awest would increase milit. ancy a hundredfold. Suffragette* interrupted Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Govern* ment Board, while epeaking At Battersea. Several were ejected., ' Mr. Buiits said that he \meant to break down thifc tyranny of organised blackguardism. It was in the interest of democracy that such a despotism, which had desecrated and thrown back the women's cause Io» years, should be terminated.