SUFFRAGETTES IN PRISON.
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM. I LONDON, July 21. Mr Herbert Gladstone (Secretary of State for Homo Affairs), replying to Mr Philip Snowden, in tile House of Commons, said that fourteen of the suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway Gaol for complicity in the stonethrowing in connection with the recent raid on the House of Commons, guilty of refusing to don prison dress to undergo medical examination, had been sentenced to solitary confinements Several had since kicked the female warders, who had thrown their food through the cell windows. Six had been discharged for refusing food, and others would shortly be released for the same reason.
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Mataura Ensign, 23 July 1909, Page 3
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105SUFFRAGETTES IN PRISON. Mataura Ensign, 23 July 1909, Page 3
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