SUFFRAGETTES IN GAOL.
ATTACKS ON WARDERS. By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright.
(Received August 5, 10.50 p.m.)
London, August 5. Two of the suffragettes recently released from Holloway Gaol have been sentenced to a month, and 10 days' imprisonment respectively, for assaulting female warders. The magistrate declined to order " second division" treatment.
Some of the exploits of the women who are undergoing imprisonment in Holloway Gaol for their violent methods of asserting their right to the franchise were related by the Home Secretary (Mr. Herbert Gladstone) in the House of Commons V few weeks ago, in reply to a question by .Mr. "Philip Snowden (Labour• member for Blackburn). Mr. Gladstone said that 14 suffragists who had been guilty of refusing to wear prison dress or to submit to medical examination were sentenced to terms of solitary confinement. Several of them had since kicked and bitten female warders,.'', and had thrown food out of their cell Windows. Six prisoners who had refused-food and, had starved themselves into a state of weakness had been discharged and others would be released shortly for the same reason. ' v " ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14132, 6 August 1909, Page 5
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