THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16569, 5 June 1914, Page 7

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

DOCTOR HORSEWHIPPED. PICTURES SLASHED WITH HATCHET. By Telegraph—Prose Association—Copyright LONDON, June 3. Two suffragettes waylaid Dr Forward, of Holloway Gaol, and horsewhipped him ns a protest against forcible feeding. They wore arrested. A young suffragette smashed two pictures in the Doro. Gallery. One, Francesco Bartolozzi’s “ Love Wounded,” is almost priceless. The other, Charles Chaplin’s " Grand Canal, Venice,” is of minor value. An attendant seized the woman, who badly wounded him with a hatchet. Sho was disarmed and carried screaming and kicking to the police station.

Delphine Platt and Sarah Slater, arrested at the Palace gates yesterday, were each fined 60s or a month’s imprisonment at Bow Street. Miss Pratt attempted to stop the proceedings by a torrent of abuse. Both women were removed struggling. The Magistrate said:—"Poor demented creatures, I'm sorry for you.” Suffragettes set fire to an unoccupied villa at Belfast. The fire was extinguished and two arrests were made. POLICEMEN ASSAULTED WITH WHIPS. EDITORS ATTACKED. LONDON, June 3. Two suffragettes were arrested for assaulting policemen with hunting crops outside Holloway Gaol. Dr Forward’s assailants have been bound over. Ivy Bou has been committed for trial for the Dore Gallery outrage. Sho was only released earlier in the day after hunger-striking. Two suffragettes, one of whom is a giantess, entered tho Belfast “Telegraph” office, und knocked Mr Stewart, the editor, out of his chair. They similarly attacked Mr Anderson, editor of the "Newsletter.” Neither woman was arrested.

INCENDIARIES AT BELFAST. (Received June 4, 10.45 p.m.) LONDON, June 4. The suffragettes who set fire to a villa at Belfast were identified as Misses Madge Muir, of Birmingham, and Larmour, of Glasgow. Miss Muir, who was dressed as a man, addressing the Bench, complained of millhands stripping and spanking suffragettes. SUPPOSED PLOT AGAINST PRINCE HENRY. POLICE TAKE PRECAUTIONS. LONDON, June 4. Tho police have been informed of a suffragettes’ plot against Princo Henry, who is at Eton, and have sent two detectives to secure his safety. INVESTMENT OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE. KING DISCONTINUES MORNING RIDES. LONDON, June 4. Mrs Pankhurst is living in Grosvenor Place, overlooking tho Palace. The police are watching the house aud a motor-car is always ready to remove her to Holloway Tho King has discontinued his morning rides in Rotten Row.