THE SUFFRAGETTES PAPERS THROWN AT ROYAL COACHES ARRESTS MADE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 93, 16 October 1913, Page 7

THE SUFFRAGETTES PAPERS THROWN AT ROYAL COACHES ARRESTS MADE

4 (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrlpht.) (Received October 16, 9.45 a.n.) LONDON, 15th October. During the Royal wedding celebrations, a Suffragette was arrested for throwing papers at the King's coach. Other women threw papers at the coach in which were Queen Alexandra and the Queen of Norway. INCENDIARY SENTENCED. (Received October 16, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, 15th October. Miriam Pratt, arrested for incendiarismat Cambridge in May last, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. [Miriam Pratt, twenty-three, a school teacher, of Norwich, was charged with setting fire to a, house in Storeys-way, Cambridge. A woman's gold watch found in the house was identified by Sergeant William Ward, of the Norwich police force, as that of the prisoner, his niece, who lived at his house. When he found the watch was missing he asked his niece if she had anything to do with the fire at Cambridge. She admitted being there with two others, and said : "I did not set the house on fire." There was a wound in her hand which, she said, had been caused by a pair of scissors which she used to break the glass.] WILD SCENE IN COURT. APPLES THROWN AT THE JUDGE. (Received October 16, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 15th October. Dr. Dorothea Smith, wife of a prominent Glasgow minister, and Margaret Morrison, an artist, were sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for setting fire to a house in Glasgow. There was wild uproar in Court, women crying, "Shame!" and singing "The Marseillaise." They also flung apples and other missiles at the Judge. Three were arrested.