THE SUFFRAGETTES
MRS PANKHURST IN COURT REMANDED ON CHARGE OP INCITEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyT)*ht LONDON, February 25. There was a largo crowd at the Epsom Police Court awaiting the appearance of Mrs Pankhurst to answer a charge, under the Malicious Damage to Property Act, of inciting to crime. There were cheers (by suffragettes) and hisses, the latter preponderating. Mrs Pankhurst was remanded, bail being granted. MOB PELTS SUFFRAGETTES. LETTERS IN PILLAR-BOX SET ON FIRE. LONDON, February 25. A mob pelted suffragettes at Croydon with tomatoes and eggs, and smashed the windows of their headquarters. Letters in a Forest Hill pillar-box were set on fire by suffragettes. “CRIMINAL LAW A FARCE.” LONDON. February 25. The “Daily Chronicle’ 7 states that the release of Lilian Lenton, one of tho two young women charged with the Kew Gardens tea-rooms outrage, and who reached a state of collapse owing to her refusal to take food, makes the criminal law a farce.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8365, 27 February 1913, Page 8
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