WEARY AND WORM

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 May 1914, Page 2

WEARY AND WORM

PATHETIC SCENES ENACTED. [vxs» «-'fcj*« ' SBOOiAXio*-- xtoptiuatii. j (Received this day at 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 26. ' Amazing and pathetic scenes were witnessed at the court sessions. A suffragefte, aged 80 years, a physical wreck from hunger striking, was carried into the court. Another, aged 25 years, walked in as if in a dream. ATiilrd collapsed almost insensible. The attendants constantly administered restoratives to them. All refused to give their names. When sentenced to four months' imprisonment for window smashing they were staggered and had to be assisted out of the court. Two suffragettes, arrested at MaidavaTe," were carried into the court and laid in a chair. One named Grace Roe suddenly leaped out, the policemen holding her body and legs. Nellie Hall shrieked "You devils; you beasts." Throughout she fought the police as though demented. She was removed in a dishevelled condition with her clothing disarranged. The police endeavoured to gag her. Mr Eadken. K.C., in prosecuting, stated that documents secured at Maidavale included plans of a house in Leicester, movements of the police, in the vicinity, also a description of shrapnel grenade. The police also found a quantity of highly explosive fumes.