A WILD CHARGE.
DRUGGING OF SUFFRAGETTE PRISONERS.
London, June 8. Miss Barbara Wylie, a suffragette, speaking at a suffragette meeting at Knightsbridge, referring to the arrest of a solicitor's clerk for conveying drugs to Grace Roe in. Holloway Gaol, alleged that the Government had deliberately tried to make the imprisoned suffragettes physical and mental wrecks by puttng drugs into the'food which had been forcibly administered t& them. Therefore, slie said, they were justified in finding an antidote for such poisons. Announcing the receipt of several large donations, Miss Wylie declared that the women would "crush the Government beneath the weight of our gold."
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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13493, 12 June 1914, Page 5
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103A WILD CHARGE. Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13493, 12 June 1914, Page 5
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