WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
THREE LADIES GO TO PRISON. DEMONSTRATION IN COURT. Press Association—By, Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, October 25.. After hearing 27 witnesses, Mr Curtis Bennett, the presiding magistrate tit Westminster Court, refused to permit a further waste of time hi listening to a string of witnesses testifying to the orderly nature of the suffragette crowd. He bound Mrs Pankhurst- and Mts Drummondi over in a. sum of £200 to keep the peace 'for a year, with the alternative, of three months' imprisonment, and Miss Panklroret in a sum of £100, with the alternative of 10 weeks' imprisonment. Miss Christabel Pankhurst; LL.B., secretary of the Women's Social Union, made an emotional speech of an. hour's length, and then buret into tears. Mrs Pankhurst also concluded her remarks by sobbing. After the magistrate's sentence all the defendants elected dramatically to go to prison. The officials failed to suppress a loud and continued suffragette demonstration in court. 1
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14355, 27 October 1908, Page 7
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