OUTRAGES BY WOMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15234, 22 February 1913, Page 7

OUTRAGES BY WOMEN.

TEA HOUSE BURNED DOWN. " ■ ' . . » .- ■ TWO ARRESTS MADE. ' : SCENE IN COURT.; - MAGISTRATE ATTACKED. By Telegraph,—Press Assoc;-: Hon.— Ccpy./igbt , Lcxoon, February• 20. A quantity of chiton wool, soaked in paraffin, was found near the tea- ' house in Kew Gardens, Surrey (which was burned down by suffra--1 gettes last night) at four o'clock-this ' I morning. Following up the clue, the ' i police chased and captured two well- '! dressed young women, named Joyce Locke and Lilian Lenton. In the adjoining cricket ground a portmanteau, containing a saw, ham.- ; raer and paraffined tow, had been ' dropped. , The woman Locke, •on being brought before the Richmond Police Court, threatened a hunger strike if she were not allowed bail. " 1 The Magistrate replied: "We are ' not to be v frightened by intimidation." •; Locke then threw a book at the 1 Magistrate; and was ejected : from the t Court struggling violently. . Both accused were remanded in ■ -custody.' ... ; \ ■ . The damage caused by the fire 1 totals £1000. Sir George Riddell, newspaper pro--1 prietor, who owns the house that is ' being erected for Mr Lloyd-George ;(and which has been damaged by the ' bomb explosion), is a keen suffragist. ,-■ -. ' •';•.-•. § , : --; The Star, in referring to the wrecking of Mr Lloyd-George's house says that the State' must make a stand against bomb outrages. Already, it says, there is a grave disparity between the treatment accorded to the suffragist and other prisoners. .. \ / The Daily Chronicle says .that the comfort of the modern, humanised prison has made political martyrdom far too cheap.] Every -ji outrage ' merely replenishes the suffragette societies' coffers. Monetary, penal- > ties, it considers, should be exacted. MORE PILLAR-BOX FIRES. i 2000 Betters destroyed. " . ~ London,' February 20. Twenty pillar-boxes and '9000 letters have been destroyed .in Edinburgh. '. , Fires in the chief branch office at Leith and in : the sorting office 'at Northampton .were extinguished before much damage was done. . -J,."-, MISS PANKHURST'S VIEWS. JOY AT BOMB OUTRAGE. £ (Keneived February Sty,-10.25 p.m.) !• , " ■'■;: ' : -'.-' T London, February.2l. : 1 , , Miss Christabel Pankhurst, in an interview yesterday, stated that she 1 rejoiced at ■the Walton bomb outrage. ,- '-•- : V .'. v - ; >,'"'.'•- • ■ "';• I :..-.'■'.' Miss Christabel Pankhursfc : has \ been described as the Oban of Arc of the Eng--1 lish suffragette movement. It has been her enthusiasm, more than anything else, which has carried the " Votes tor Women banner to the' very door of St. Stephen's, and galvanised -the ; question of women's suffrage, • formerly one of purely academic interest in Great Britain',. mto a: live, burning problem of "the hour. Miss Panuhurst, who has' been placed -under •arrest more than once for her participation m the. policy .of militancy, has ; none of _ the eccentricities of dress or manner, which have provided the : English ; newspapers artist with the material for his pictures of the "Shrieking Sisterhood." She is Just "' a fine-looking, cultured, young English- : woman, such as , one would hardly; expect " to-find openly approving of the use of th© > bomb as a weapon in the fight for the .' franchise. .'...-. ' _ .']'■ ->■■/■.