THE SUFFRAGETTES

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 143, 19 June 1913, Page 8

THE SUFFRAGETTES

KENNY CREATES A SCENE

"TIME FOR LENIENCY HAS

PASSED."

[Press Association.] (Received June 19, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 18. The Judge -assumed tliat defendants ' thought they were forwarding a good ' object. He commended them to a' woman writer's statement that it was treason1 to the Almighty to believe that the end justified the means. He argeed with the jury in discriminating between the younger and older defendants. The former were incited to do tilingsl which in future years they would wholly regret. The distinction between the third and second division was that in the former there wero fe-wer means of communication with outsiders, and in the present case the lesw opportunity the defendants had of giving or receiving bad advice while in prison the better. One counsel had suggested that the time for the Executive's leniency had passed. He did not think that defendants should meet with the same leniency as the others had ? and if Mr McKenna consulted him,' as he often consulted the judges, he would advise him that the ringleaders at any rate ought not to be i z*eleased under airy consideration.

Kenny (excitedly): "They will have to kill us, then." Judge Phillimdre: "If you violate the canon which the. Everlasting lias fixed against self-slaughter you must reckon with your own conscience." , Kenny rejoined: "I am quite prepared to do that." Baret and Kenny threatened to hunger-strike. Kenny, clutching the edge of the dock, shouted: "The judge oughts to be ashamed to receive £6000 a year for hounding down women."

The judge ordered her removal, which required the, exertion of two warders and tw;o wardresses.

Judge Phillimore remarked that in Clayton's case nothing worse ot more wicked or more mischievous than the proposals with ■which- he tried to tempt Avonien could be imagined.