The Suffragettes.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 30, 27 May 1914, Page 5

The Suffragettes.

VOU DEVS LSI YOU BEASTS! STRANGE SCENES IN COURT. [Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright [Unit-su Press Association.] (Received 11.20 a.m.) London, May 26. Amazing and pathetic scenes weie witnessed at the Court sessions. A suffragette, aged fifty, a physical wreck from hunger-striking, was carried into Court. Another, aged twenty-five, walked in as in a dream. A third collapsed, and was almost insensible. Attendants constantly administered restoratives. All refused to give their names. When sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for window-smashing, they were staggered and were assisted out of the Court.

APPLICATION OF THE CAC

Two arrested at Maida, Vale were carried into Court and lay in their chairs.

One, Grace Roe, suddenly leaped up, screaming, and was carried out, the police holding her arms, body, and legs. Nellie Hall shrieked: “You devils! You beasts!’’ throughout, and fought the police as if demented. She ■ was removed in a dishevelled condition with her clothing disarranged, the police endeavoring to gag her.

Mr Bodkin, K.C., for the prosecution, stated that the documents secured at Maida Yale included plans of a house in Leicester, the movements of the police in the vicinity, also a description of shrapnel and the grenade. The police also found a quantity of highly explosive fuses.

"GROANS” FOR THE KING.

London, May 26

At the weekly meeting of the suffragettes, the King’s name was greeted with groans and Hisses lasting several minutes.

VARIOUS SENTENCES.

(Received 9.15 a.m.) London, May 26

Freda Graham was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for damaging five pictures in the National Gallery, her pretext being that it was a protest against the King not receiving a deputation. Mary Spencer received a similar sentence, for the Acadamy outrage and several others four, months’ imprisonment for window-smashing.