SCURRILITY SUFFRAGETTES' LETTER TO MAGISTRATES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 7

SCURRILITY SUFFRAGETTES' LETTER TO MAGISTRATES

MRS. PANKHURST SENT FOR TRIAL "ABOMINABLE OUTRAGE." By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. • (Received February 27, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 26th February. During the hearing of the case at the Epsom Police Court against Mrs. Pankhurst charged, under the Malicious Damage to Property Act, with incitement to crime, the Magistrates handed Mr. Marshall Hall, K.C., Mrs. Panic--hurst's counsel, an unopened letter addressed to the Bench. Mr. Hall, on opening it, stated that it was from suffragettes at Epsom, and was scurrilous and unworthy of notice. Mr. A. H. Bodkin, for the prosecution, emphasised the seriousness of the charge of being an accessory before the fact to the commission of, a felony. The abominable outrage had avowedly been intended to overawe the public and the Government in furtherance of a seditious and illegal scheme. Mrs. Pankhurst was committed to the Guildford Assizes for trial, and sent to" gaol, having declined, in the event of bail being granted, to refrain from con* tinuing the agitation. TELEPHONE WIRES CUT. HINT OF RESTRICTIVE LEGISLATION. (Received February 27, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 26th February. Telephone wires at a. dozen call offices in Belfast have been cut. The Home Office will continue forcible feeding of prisoners, until life is endangered, and they will then be released. It is hinted that, a Bill is being preEared to enable suffragette prisoners to c released on license ; also providing for the recovery of fines.