PANKS ON THE WARPATH.
CAMPAIGN OF INCENDIARISM. POLICEMAN AND HIS NIECE. THE STORY OF A WATCH. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Received this day at 9.35 a.m.) London, This Day. Miriam Pratt, who is charged with committing incendiarism at Cambridge has been remanded. Bail wan refused. She left Norwich, telling her uncle, who is a jjoliceman, that she was going to distribute leaflet- for the Cambridgeshire election. When .she returned her uncle discovered that her watch was missing. Learning that the watch was found in Storey’s Way he taxed his niece with having startl'd the fire.
A ladder bound with flanpellertte saturated with paraffin was found in another Cambridge House. A timber yard at Kilburn was set on fire, doing considerable damage. (Received this day at 12.45 a.m.) London This Day. tary, z bs Mr R. McKenna, the Home Secretary, speaking at Catdiff amid suffragist interruption.', repudiated any idea of conoi*ssions. He also Warned the suffragettes that they were bringing trouble on themselves, as the Government was determined to enforce respect for tlie law.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4538, 23 May 1913, Page 5
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173PANKS ON THE WARPATH. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4538, 23 May 1913, Page 5
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