WOMEN IN WYOMING.
At a meeting in Melbourne to support the extension of the franchise to women, one of the speabers described from personal obser at on the operation of women's franchise in Wyoming. The first man brought 'before the first lady- justice of the peace of that territory was the lady's own husband, who stood accused of drunkenness. She sentencf-'Tiim to thirty years. On one occasion tl Veaker was on a jury trying a murdere*** Two of the jurors were ladies. All A?he male jurors wanted to bring in a verdi<*) fc o| not guilty, but this the women would hear of; it was no use arguing with then., because they only went into a corner* aud prayed fervently for the ten obstinate? *"taen. It ended in the murderer being convicted.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6137, 25 March 1898, Page 3
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