THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 17, 20 June 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

JUDICIAL DISCRIMINATION. A SCENE IN COURT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, Juna 18. Continuing his summing up, Justice the Horn Sir AY. Phillimore said ho assumed defendants' motive was the idea that they were forwarding a go«d object. He commended to them a woman writer's statement that it was treason to the Almighty to believe that the end justified the means. He agreed with the jury in thinking that discrimination should be made between the younger and older defendants. He was thinking particularly of the incitements which defendants and others had given to young and chivalrous women, whose emotions were not balanced by reason, to do things which in future years they would wholly regret. The distinction between the third and. second division was that in the former there were fewer means nf communicating' with outsiders,- and in the present case the less opportunity'defendants had of giving or receiving bad advice while in prison the better. One counsel had suggested that the time for the Executive's leniency had passed. He did not think defendants would meet with the same leniency that others had, and if Mr. McKenria, the Home Secretary, consulted him, as he often consulted judges, he would advise that the ringleaders at any rate ought not to be released on any consideration. Miss Kenny, excitedly: "They will have to kill us, then." Justice Phillimore: If you violate the canon which the Everlasting has fixed against self-slaughter you must reckon with your own conscience. Miss Kenny rejoined that she was quite prepared to do that. Misses Barrett and Kenny threatened a hunger strike," Miss Kenny clutching the edge of the dock and shouting: '"The Judge ought. to be ashamed to receive £<sooo a , year, for hounding down woWren."'' Tlie 'VTud'ge ordered iicif-ietrtoval, which required all the exertions/of.two warders and two wurdressep.- , Justice phijlimore remarked, in the Clayton case, that nothing.worse, more wicked or more mischievous} than the proposals with": which he hail tried to tempt tile 'women; could' be' imagined. £IOO,OOO DAMAGE. ANOTHER BURNING OUTRAGE. Received 20, 12.53 a.m. London, June 1!). The Social Political Union has prepared a memorial to Mr. Asquith declaring that £IOO.OOO worth of property lias been destroyed since December as a protest against women's continued exclusion from citizen rights. The parish church at Rowley Regis has been burnt. The damage'is £OOOO. The Suffragettes are suspected.