SUFFRAGETTE’S CATAPULT

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144086, 3 May 1913, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE’S CATAPULT

Described as an actress, of Sedgeford Road, Shepherd’s Bush,' Miss Jackydavia Melford, daughter of Mr. Mark Melford, the actor, was fined 40s or a month at Westminster for discharging leaden bullets from a catapult “to the common danger.” Mr. Melford at once paid the. fine. Seated on the top of a motor-omnibus in Victoria Street, it was said, the defendant was seen te fir© a rairsilo from a powerful catapult. It was afterwards found that leaden bullets weighing nearly IJo*. were being used. A police constable said a bullet with “VoUw for women” moulded on it struck the Westminster J’alace Hotel with a resounding force and then dropped into an a rea. Mr. M ark Melford identified a catapult us ' belonging to Him. Ho had a gipsy caravan at Sheppey Island, and* he used the catapult for shooting pah* bits. “My daughter, an, enthusiastic suffragette’through no fault of mine—(laughter)—l don’t blame her, it is her business —must have borrowed my catapult.” ■ The Magistrate (Mr. Horace Smith)-. But von don’t have bullets for rabbits with “Votes for women” on them?— "Well, of course, I know nothing about that. This bullet—a specimen of the ones I use—is enough to kill a rabbit. Mr. Muskett (prosecuting): The ones wo.have are quite enough to kill men if only they hit them. Mr. Melford; I have no control over my daughter. .