UNINVITED GUESTS.
SUFFRAGETTES AT LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET. London, November II Amelia Brown, no occupation, and Alice Paul, student, were fined £5 and costs, or one month's imprisonment. for breaking a window at the Guildhall during the Lord Mayor's banquet. They obtained admission as charwomen, and participated in preparing the room for the banquet. They then concealed themselves. They were found in possession of a bottle of milk and a stomach pump which they intended to present to Mr Asquith as an illustration of the forcible feeding methods. The alderman severely commented on their hysterical tactics and the inexcusable damaging of a historic building.
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Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4309, 12 November 1909, Page 5
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103UNINVITED GUESTS. Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4309, 12 November 1909, Page 5
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