THE SUFFRAGETTES
SANCTUARY CLAIMED annoyance oe public men. By Telegra-rh—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, May 14. Mrs Drummond, tho suffragette leader, who was summoned owing to making inciting speeches, visited Sir Edward Carson’s house and claimed sanctuary, she considering that Sir Edward Carson was a fellow militant whoso threshold was tho safest shelter from arrest. She stationed herself on the doorstep. Mrs Dacro Eos was similarly summoned. Sho entered the grounds of tho Marquis of Lansdowne’s house, hut tho police removed her to the police station, where she was released. She then returned to the house. Owing to the failure of the two women to appear at Westminster Police Court, warrants have been issued. Mrs Drummond and Mrs Fox have been rearrested for resuming their annoyance of public men. “HUNGER STRIKE." GRAND JURY’S RECOMMENDATION. COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE. LONDON, May 14. The Grand Jury at the London Quarter Sessions recommended that “ hunger-striking’’ be regarded as a breach of prison discipline, punishable by the prison governors at their discretion, and that compensation for damage done by militant suffragettes should be taken from the society to which the militants belong.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8734, 16 May 1914, Page 5
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185THE SUFFRAGETTES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8734, 16 May 1914, Page 5
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