The Suffragettes

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 25, Issue 40, 26 May 1914, Page 5

The Suffragettes

ART GALLERIES CLOSED. ' THE THEATRE DISTURBANCE. EXCITING SCENES IN POLICE COURT. London, May 22. The National Art Gallery and the Wallace Collection have been closed indefinitely owing to the fear of suffragette outrages. The documents found in the house at Maida Yale, which was raided by the police, included plans of country houses and several coils of inflammable cord. ,«■

The suffragette Annie Kenney interviewed the Primate and intimated her intention of remaining at Lambeth Palace, t’iually she was arrested under the Cat and Mouse Act. , Besides the attempt to harangue the King, suffragettes showered leaflets on the stalls past the front of the Royal box. -Their majesties were unmoved throughout, but the audience, of which two-thirds were women, exhibited intense indignation-

Disturbances occurred in most of the police courts were suffragettes were charged. Pandemonium reigned at Bow Street, where 65 struggling and yelling male and female sympathisers joined in the uproar. Blows were exchanged with the police before the Court was cleared.

A bailees suffragette threw a boot, which the Magistrate, Sir- John Dickenson, deftly caught with his left hand. ■ ' ATTEMPT TO WRECK WATER MAINS ANOTHER POLICE RAID London, May 24. Suffragettes placed bombs alongside the pipes conveying water from Loch Katrine to Glasgow, but the fuse vaa blown out, before reaching the detonator. An explosion would have cub off .half Glasgow’s water supply. A suffragette at-Bdin born ugh gashed Lavery’s picture of the King in the Scottish Academy. She was arrested.

Two suffragettes smashed a mummy case in the British Museum, but the contents were not harmed. One of the women, Wheele--, wis sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and the other named Say, to one month. The police raided and occupied the Women’s Social Political Union office and arrested Grace Rae, the general secretary, who is charged with conniving with Nellie Hall to damage property.