SUFFRAGETTES IN TROUBLE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10238, 30 August 1909, Page 4

SUFFRAGETTES IN TROUBLE.

MR TIM HEALE_Y'S l.Mp.ik, DEFENCE. S " [By Electric Telegraph—CW (Per Tress- Association i ; Received August 20, sit f>.,"i |, m London, Aii ßl ., Mrs Despard and several X : fragettes were . charged at lj w ', in connection with the distnrWJ ing out of the recent atteninti tiou Mr Asquith. l k

Mr Tim Healey, who :i ]ipcan> the defendants, maintained (J clients were entitled const it ution present a petition to tho s l)v ' chief officer. He contrasted (],.) tion allowed to powerful coml,; assembling outside factories uJ Trades Union Act of l!l|)(j Jj treatment meted out to fl> 0Se | standing day after day in nil \\l humbly asking for a vote. ' a British .jury blame them or u. who refused to see lliom ; j i magistrate declined, to aeijiiit tl fendants, .he would ask him t« a case. Then lie eould ag whether the Judges of the Hj„i thougl.it the rights of the million be swept away at the biddij, casual ephemeral Premier. lf t fendants had gone to applng,]|] -quith or the Liberal Party nr \\ get, they would not have bei'ii ta Mr Curtis Bennett, presiding trate, reserved his decision I'm. ir