Suffragette Outrages

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 16, 28 February 1913, Page 5

Suffragette Outrages

MRS PANKHURST AGAIN ARRESTED . £6OOO DAMAGE IN A WEEK r London, Feb. 24. Mrs Pankhurst has been arrested ' and charged under the Malicious Dam- ‘ age to Property Act with incitement in connection with the Walton-on the Hill outrage. The case has been transferred to Epsom. The damage caused by suffragettes last week is estimated at £6OOO. Annie Kenny, speaking at Bow, dared the authorities to allow any women to die in prison. Such an event, she declared would make militants by hundreds. Mrs Despard was forced to abandon a meeting at Thornton Heath. Other suffragettes were refused a bearing at Wimbledon. A party at Pieston were pelted with eggs and refuse, and obliged to take shelter in shops. Seats on Hampstead Heath were stencilled with green paint with the words “ Votes for women,” and visitors’ dresses ware damaged. The signal wires have been cut on the Great Western Railway at New~ port. The * Daily Citizen ” says that the public temper is rising against Mrs Pankhurst’s militancy, and that present methods are doing more injury to the cause than a score of anti-suffrage leagues. Lilian Lenton, one of the two women convicted in connection with the Kew Gardens fire, has been released in a state of collapse after a hunger strike.' FORCIBLE FEEDING TO BE CONTINUED London, Feb. 27. The Horae Office will continue forcible feeding of prisoners until life is endangered and they will then be re- ] leased. It is hinted that a Bill is being prepared to enable suffragette j prisoners to be released on license, also providing for the recovery of fines. Mrs Pankhurst was committed to the Guildfoid Assizes for trial and sent to goal, having declined in the event of bail being granted to refrain' from continuing the agitating.