Dementsd Women

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 5

Dementsd Women

SLASHING PICTURES, WHIPPING MEN', PUNCHING EDITORS. THE " WEAKER " SEX RUN MAD. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, Juno 3. Two suffragettes waylaid Dr. Forward, of Holloway Gaol, and horsewhipped him as a protest against forcible feeding. They were" arrested and bound over to keep the peace. A young suffragette slashed two pictures in the Dore Gallery. One, Bartolozzi's "Love Wounded," is almost priceless; the other, Chapland's "Grand Canal, Venice," is of minor value. The attendant, Bourlet, seized the woman, who badly wounded him with the hatchet. She was disarmed and carried screaming and kicking to the police station. Ivon Bon was committed for trial for the Dore Gallery outrage. She had only been released earlier in the day for hunger-striking. Delphine Prat and Sarah Slater, who were arrested at Buckingham Palace gates yesterday, were' each fined 50s, or a month's imprisonment, at Bow Street. Pratt attempted to stop the proceedings by a torrent of abuse. Both were removed struggling. The magistrate said: "Poor, demented creatures. I am sorry for you." Suffragettes fired an unoccupied villa at Belfast. The fire was extinguished and two arrests made. Two suffragettes, one of whom is a giantess, entered the Belfast Telegraph office and knocked Stewart, the editor, out of his chair, and similarly attacked Anderson, editor of the Belfast Newsletter. Neither was arrested.