FOUR AMAZONS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8179, 22 July 1912, Page 1

FOUR AMAZONS

FIGHTING FOR VOTES THE NEW METHOD WITH AXE AND FIRE DUBLIN SENSATION By Teleerapli—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 21, 5.5 p.m.) < LONDON, July 20. As an outcome of the disturbances caused by' suffragettes in Dublin on Thursday evening, during the visit of. the Prime Minister, Mr Asquith, four women—Gladys Evans, Mary Leigh (who threw a hatchet at Mr Asquith, but missed, striking Mr J. E. .Red. mond instead and inflicting a slight injury to his ear), Lizzie Baker, and Mary Capper (the latter two English/ women) —appeared in court yesterday. They were charged with conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm and with doing malicious damage.' The evidence showed that but for the action of the men' at the Theatre Royal the building would have been burnt, with many fatalities. Tho attendants found a basket full of firelighters, well alight, and a carpet was saturated with petrol. An explosior added to the general alarm. All four were committed for trlalGUY FAWKES UP TO DATE. Several suffragettes left England fof Dublin, where they were closely watched. _

Leigh admits throwing an. axe at Mr Asquith, and Mr,O’Brien and the chief marshal tried to prevent her. She fought the marshal, and tore his epaulettes. .Evans .was captured while trying to set fire to the cinematograph box in the Theatre Royal, when the house was empty. She placed a handbag containing gunpowder into the box, and attempted to throw lighted matches ou to the powder. The carpet, being saturated with petrol, burst into flame and caused the explosion already mentioned. ■ Two soldiers extinguished the fire. . Another woman, who apparently was not arrested, was in a private box and set a curtain afire after saturating it with petrol. j At the defendants’ lodgings the police found , rubber gloves, a small quantity of oil, and matches. Capper joined, the other three wo. men shortly., beforedhey were arrestedShe offered to'flnd bail for all. CROWD BECOMES ANGRY. While Mr Asquith was speiting in .the Theatre Royal some suffragettes! attempted to parade the street, and re mfct with cries of “Hatchet! u unpowder 1” The women retorted with: “What about men shooting landlords?” - The crowd was So exasperated; that the women were compelled to find, refuge in the post office, the windows of which were smashed recently by some { of them, and hut for the intervention! of the police they would have beer thrown into the River Liffey.