THE SUFFRAGETTES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8609, 20 December 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES

VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS DYNAMITE AT HOLLOWAY GAOL. By Telegraph—Press Amioclatlon—Copyrlglu LONDON, December 18, Suffragettes attempted to blow up a wall of Holloway Gaol. There were two violent explosions in the vicinity of the cell in which Rachael Pearce is being forcibly fed. Houses in the locality were shaken. Tho explosives were introduced through an unoccupied house nearby. RESIDENTS STARTLED. HOLES BLOWN IN PRISON WALL. (Received December 10, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 19. The explosions occurred at intervals of half a minute. They startled tho residents of Holloway and Camden Town. Many windows were broken in the prison, but the building was little damaged. Several holes were blown in the wall surrounding tho prison garden large enough to alio--' piisoners to escape. Tho perpetrators dug a mine from which two fuses led to a house in Dabinony avenue, w’hich had been presviously the suffragette headquarters and where those guarding the prison were housed when off duty. The miscreants escaped. A handful of golden hair found in the garden suggested that a suffragette had boon injured.