THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 65, 17 November 1913, Page 7

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

DEAD CAT AS A MISSILE.

(.By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, November 15. A suffragette, before the train reached Newcastle, struck Mr Join Redmond, M.P., on the face with a handbag. She was arrested. While the Right Hon'. A; Birrell. Chief Secretary for Ireland, was ad dressing a gathering of Young Liberals at Bristol, he was] struck ham on the chest by a dead cAt, which was thrown by a man, who shouted, ‘.‘Torture that, instead of defenceless women.” " i- .- ' to ILL‘ADVISED WOMEN. ~ :• \ '3j 0 1 , i / (Reijpjyed 10.20 a.m.) •-* ■ ' • /hliondon, aNbvember 16. Rachel Pearce was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment. During the trial, a well-dressed woman threw a hammer and a tomato at Judge Lawrence and others, and broke the windows and glass around the dock. Five arrests were made. r The. foreman ol the jury asJ«fff*fhat alj ; wpincn should ho (searched, r :v£n he judge the jury wtH’O.iisafe.niT'hl court was cleared of iwomen.