WOMEN'S FRANCHISE
THE POLICE DUPED. MRS PANKHURST ARRESTED. SCENE OF UPROAR, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 21. A dramatic effort was made to secure the leader of the militant suffragettes from her flat. A decoy dressed like Mrs Pankhurst left the house, and the police, "who were on guard and followed were hindered from arresting her by 50 suffragettes. The police eventually caught the woman, and then found they had been tricked. It is not known whether Mrs Pankhurst escaped during the diversion.
Mrs Pankhurst, unknown to the police, reached the Pavilion, and hid in an anteroom till the meeting commenced. The detectives, hearing of her presence, barred the exits and arrested her as she was going on the platform. An uproar followed, and a number of women attempted to rescue her. They attacked the detectives with hatpins and umbrellae. Several arrests were effected.
Mrs Pankhurst, when Holloway was readied, Tefused to. leave the cab, so the detectives lifted her out and carried her into tho prison.
ATTENTION TO MR ASQUITH,
HOTEL WINDOWS BROKEN. LONDON, July 22. (Reoeived July 22, at 11.15 p.m.) The suffragettes were active on the occasion of the Prime Minister's visit to Birmingham. They broke a number of windows in the Grand HoteL
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15823, 23 July 1913, Page 5
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