THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 15124, 13 October 1909, Page 7

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

WINDOW SMASHERS SENTENCED. United Pro» AMOci»tioD r Br Electrio Telegraph—Copy wsu " LONDON, October Hi Three more suffragettes at Newcastle were sentenced to one month's hard labour, and two to fourteen days' imprisonment, all for window breaking. Lady Lytton and another were given tho option of being bound over to keep the peace or to undergo a month's imprisonment. They chose the latter. A TROUBLESOME PRISONER. (Received October 12, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. Mrs Leigh has commenced a civil suit against, the Right Hon Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, and the governor and doctor of Birmingham prison. She states that she was handcuffed after breaking the windows of her coll and starved for four days. Then two doctors, tho matron and eight wardresses tilted her chair backward and she was forcibly fed through the nostril. Mrs Leigh broko the windows of the hospital cell, and finally was put to bed in a padded cell. She piled a bed, table, and chair against the door, keeping the warders out for three hours.