DETERMINED SUFFRAGETTE.
MAGISTRATE IN A DIFFICULTY.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrfeht London, October 30. , .Gladys Evans, a Suffragette who .was recently rearrested, has been discharged a second time after beginning another "hunger strike." The woman was sent to gaol for attempting to burn down the Theatre Royal at Dublin .during the visit of Mr. Asquith, Prime Minister, and was released after she had become ill through refusing fcod, but was recently rearrested for failing to report herself to the police. . The magistrate has now discharged her in consideration of her detention since her arrest. He remarked that he had difficulty in dealing with people for whom punishment had no terror, and penal serritude no shame.
WILL NEVER OBEY THE LAW. (Rec. October 31, 0.35 a.m.) London, October 30. The Suffragette, Gladys Evans, told tho Bench that however often sho was rearrested she would never comply with the regulations of a Government which was attempting to treat her as a ticket-9f-leave convict. ' . .
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1585, 31 October 1912, Page 7
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160DETERMINED SUFFRAGETTE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1585, 31 October 1912, Page 7
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