TO KIDNAP H.R.H

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 84, 9 April 1932, Page 17

TO KIDNAP H.R.H

SUFFRAGETTE PLOT

How the suffragettes failed in a plot to kidnap the Prince of Wales when ho was an undergraduate at Oxford is disclosed in "From Information Received," a new book by Mr. Cecil Bishop, late of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard.

According to Mr. Bishop, definite news was received that the kidnapping was to be attempted during a motor journey by the Prince from Oxford to Reading, where ho' was going shooting. It was decided that the trip should bo made, but an unnsual route was chosen. All went well until the Prince's ear broke down near Stenning, in Berkshire. The Prince changed into one of two- other cars accompanying him. It was this change of cars which caused the suffragettes' plans to go awry.

A party of them—six women with, two or three men—was passed at crossroads. They were on the look-out for a blue Daimler. What they actually should have stopped was a brown fourseater, but the weather was against them. At the- cross-roads the rain was pelting down so hard that it was impossible to recognise the persons occupying the back seats of a car with, its side curtains and hood down.