SHARP'S SUPPOSED COMPANIONS

Grey River Argus, 28 May 1914, Page 5

SHARP'S SUPPOSED COMPANIONS

! SUFFRAGETTE WORKEI& •- - **- LONDON, May i 3 Vincent Sharp, before he Absconded from Hunslet, learned farming inWder to gain an 1 assisted passage. >>r While •he was relieving officer of the' "Board of Guardians he visited the-Tural, disc tricts on, many occasions and'practised ploughing. From a farmer at Rothwell jnear Hunslet. he obtained a recommendation for a supposed -friend named* William- Simpson. - fj The woman Sedman, who -is "l^feg-ed to s have shipped as Annie Smith.'' was closely associated with the nmifant suffragettes, and assisted Liliaiy'Lenton to escape 1 from a house at Roundhay, Leeds, in the guise of a grocer's boy. * Tv Sharp and Miss Sedman. found a common interest in the cause of^votes for women, and Miss Walker a keen 'Suffragtette. Her employieTS were aware of her interest in the move. mnt, but. whenever shleft suffragette literature about the office it was promptly put in the fire. } t \^ " Great sympathy "is"' expres'se^fwith 'Mrs: Sharp, who Resigned; 'her^dst j*a marton^of* the Industrial Sc3io6l *at Edinburgh, a position that cariied a salary of - £200 :aTyear^ in^ ctfdeirfto marry. " "* '-" Miss Sedman and Miss Walker; ? had the reputation of" being man-haters. Miss Walker^s father, whin 'interwtewr ed, said joculanly:" "I'm not surprised at* anything that •* '