YOUNG HOT-BLOOD'S SOCIETY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13070, 9 May 1913, Page 3

YOUNG HOT-BLOOD'S SOCIETY.

(Received May 9, 9.40 a.m.)

LONDON, May 8. The hearing of the conspiracy case in which Mrs Drummond and six other, women and a man named Clayton, a consulting analyst, are charged with conspiring with Mrs Pankhurst and others to damage property, has been resumed. Evidence was called as to inflammatory speeches, letters, and circulars'relating to the formation of a "Young Hot-Bloods' Society," consisting of unmaoried members of- thie Social and Political Union. The case was adjourned until May 13. The women were granted bail. — [It Was in this case that Mr Bodkin, K.C., who appears for the Crown, described Mrs . Drummond as violent and unscrupulous. He said Mir.s

Kenney had made inflammatory speeches, | and that Clayton, in return for payment, had prostituted his knowledge of science for the furtherance of crime. • Documents showed that a man named Buckner, of Hamburg, had written to Miss Kerr, one of the defendants, telling the latter how to terrorise audiences by the use of powder, causing violent sneezing • severe irritation of the skin. Mr Bod)--" detailed the particulars of a scheme which had been submitted to Mrs Drummond, costing twenty pounds, arid by the carrying out of which the dockyards had been fired, causing damage to the extent of £20,000. At the first hearing of the eight accused, all were remanded and released on Tbail, with the exception of Mrs Drummond and Miss Annie Kenney, who shouted out as they were taken away that they would "hungerstrike."] ■ / ' ' I

A suffragette was captured in the Dublin Art Gallery daubing Mr Redmond's bust with green paint in revenge for the manner in which he voted on the Suffrage Bill.