IMPRISONED FURIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 636, 13 October 1909, Page 7

IMPRISONED FURIES.

. SUFFRAGETTE TACTICS. ; THE FORCIBLE FEEPING DESCRIBED^ , BARRTCAPEPQELL. (By Tolegraph-Prcsa Association-Copyright.) (Rec, October 32, • 11,50 .p.m.) Unijpn,. October 12. Mrs. Leigh,: a S|iffragette, Ijas commenced * qivil : suit against Mr. Gladstone, IlQfflo Secre, tary, and thp gnvernpr and doctor of tho Birt minghani Prjson, where forcible feeding-was administered:to ftl.lfragpttp hunspr-s.trjk.ers/ Mrs, Leigh states that she was 'handcuffed after, breaking the windows pf ber cell, and ■itaiyed for. four/days. Then two doctors, the matron, and' eight wardresses' tilted her phajr backward, and she was forcibly fed thrpugh a nostril, •. ■•_ .:..'••■. . .■ "■■"'; '/.Mrs,; Leigh, broke' the window? of the host Pital cell, and was finally put to bed jn'V padded cell. She then/piled the bed, the table, and a chair ajainst the door/ kepding the warders out for three hours.' .' ".' ' " .. ; - .MORS gENTgNQES. "•..". ■ ■ , .'-.■■■ ■':.!'-• London, October 11. ..Three, more Suffragettes at Newcastle were each; sentenced to ft month's hard-labour, and twp to fourteen;days eaqh. 'The charge agaipst ajl of theni wa? ; lady U ttqn and another were gj T en the option of being, bound over to keep the p?nci, or . ns«m ■i ■ mppth'B • ipjprispnraent. They qhesa the; latter, ' ■ ' ' '