SUICIDE RIGHTS.
"CAT AND MOUSE" ACT A TRESPASS ON PUBLIC LIBERTY. By Telegraph—P.ress Association—Copyright ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.) London, August 18. .. The "Cat and Mouse" Act, under the provisions of which ft Suffragette, once convicted, is only allowed liberty during subsequent good behaviour, was described by the Rev. William Temple, M.A. (headmaster of Repton School), in a speech at Oxford, as a form of torture, a form that would not allow militant Suffragettes to please themselves. The course was taken of supplying them with nourishment suitable to v their recovery, -but he could not conceive why tho State should interfere tj forbid suicide. The Government had passed legislation outraging human liberty, instead of'recognising man's Tight to commit suicide.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1833, 20 August 1913, Page 7
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118SUICIDE RIGHTS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1833, 20 August 1913, Page 7
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