DEFYING THE LAW.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1681, 22 February 1913, Page 5

DEFYING THE LAW.

WOMEN VANDALS IN COURT.

LIVELY SCENES.

BOOK THROWN AT THE BENCI OUR "HUMANISED" GAOLS. By Tcleeraph—Frees Assocla-tloa—Copirls: London, February 20. Cotton wads, which had been soab in paraffin, . were lound near thk ti house at Kew. The police, at 4 o'clock in tho mo.!ing, chased and captured Joyco Locke ai Lilian Lenton Young, two well-drissi women, in the adjoining cricket groiui where portmanteaux containing a sa l hammer, and tow that hud been saturati with paraffin had been dropped. ' Later the women were brought befo the Police Court at Richmond. Loci threatened to go on a "hungesr-striko" she was not allowed bail. The magistrate: We are not to 1 frightened by intimidation. Locke then threw a book at the magi trate, and wa9 taken from the Cou: struggling violently. Both accused were remanded in enstod; Tho damage to the tea house is ei down at iiIOOO. ■ , . NEWSPAPER PROTESTS. ' DOES PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME? London, February 20. Sir George Riddell,, newspaper proprii .tor, is tho owner of the house intended t be used by Mr; Lloyd-George. He is keen suffragist. Tho "Star." says the State must make . stand against bomb outrages. Alread; thero is. a grave, disparity 1 between th punishment of suffragists i and other pris oners. . The "Daily Chronicle" says, that th comfort of the modern prisoi has made political martyrdom far, toi cheap. Every outrage merely replenishei the suffragettes societies', coffers. Thi paper urges that : monetary p'enaltie! should be exacted, v-' PILLAR-BOX OUTRAGES. ' - London, February 29.' Two thousand letters and twenty pillarboxes v-ere flamageil in 'EfiMratsk. Fires, started in the chief branch-of the Leith sorting office ahd, in Northampton were extinguished. FIGHTING FOR A REVOLUTION.* .' (Rec. February 21, 10.25 p.m.) Paris, February 21. Miss Christabbl. Paukhurst, interviewed, said that she rejoit&l;to hear of the wanion bomb' - outrage.: The - Suffragists, sho said, wore fighting for a revolution.