MITITANT SUFFRAGETTES
i. • ■HEAVY' SENTENCES. ELECT TO GO TO PRISON. DEMONSTRATION IN COURT. Press 'Association—By, Telegraph—Copyright. . | v LONDON, October 25. ’’ 1 (Received October 26, at 8.10 a.m.) After hearing twenty-seven witnesses, Mr Curtis Bennett, the presiding magistrate at Westminster Court, refused to ponmt a further waste of time in listening to a , string of witnesses testifying to the orderly nature of the suffragette crowd. He bound Mre Pankhurst and Mrs Drummond over in a sum of £2OO to keep the peace for a yAar, with the alternative of three months’ imprisonment, and Alias Pankhuret in a sum of £IOO, with the alternative of ten weeks’ imprisonment. - Miss Christabel Pankhurst, LL.B., secretary of the Women’s Social Union, made an emotional speech of an hour’s length, and then buret into tears. Mrs Pankhurst also concluded her remarks, by sobbing. After the magistrate’s sentence all the defendants elected dramatically to go to prison.
The officials failed to suppress a loud' and continued suffragette demonstration in court.
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Evening Star, Issue 13091, 26 October 1908, Page 6
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163MITITANT SUFFRAGETTES Evening Star, Issue 13091, 26 October 1908, Page 6
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