CROWNING OUTRAGE.
SUFFRAGETTE WEAPONS. ; CORROSIVE 'FLUID AT VOTING BOOTH, OFFICES MAY LOSE AN ETE. IBj Telesrupta.-Froßa atsoelatlon.-Copxrlclit.l (Received Octobor 29,10.10 p.m.) • London, October 29. Mrs. Chap and Miss Mielans, members .of the Women's Freedom League (the chief organisation of the militant Suffragettes,'entered two polling booths at the Bermondsey by-election and emptied bottles of a corrosive fluid into the ballot-boxes. Only a few papers wore spoiled. . Some acidV»s splashed on the face of Mr. Thorley, the presiding officer at one of the booths, who was taken to.a,hospital, where the authorities state.that; ho will probably lose an eye. '. The "Women's Fieodom League admit that it was a deliberate plot to invalidate the eleiF tion, but deny that vitrhrt was used.
THE CAGED FURIES. SIEGE OF A CELL-PEISONEE HOSED. London, October 28. It is stated'that'-'Mrs, Strangways, a Suffragette, who is in gaol at Manchester, barricaded her cell with a plank bed. '.-.".'■■ The warders inserted a hoso through the window and drenched her for an hoar. • Finally, they forced the door.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 5
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167CROWNING OUTRAGE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 5
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