THE SUFFRAGETTE FIRE-RAISERS.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) .>' LONDON, .'May 31, Hilda • Burkett and Florence Monks, for setting fire to a Bath Hotel at Felixstowe, were sentenced to two years and nine months respectively.
The evidence showed that the women were connected with the Yarmouth, Pier outrage. There were violent scenes m Court, the prisoners turning. their backs on the magistrate. Two wardresses and four policemen were required to keep them m their seats. -^
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13395, 1 June 1914, Page 3
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