VANDAL WOMEN'S CAREER .

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2007, 14 March 1914, Page 5

VANDAL WOMEN'S CAREER .

MORE OUTRAGES. PUBLIC DEMAND FOE STERN MEASURES THE> VELASQUEZ VENUS. By TckffrapH—Press Association—Copyriefat Lonilpnt March I*. Mary Richardson, tiro Suffragette who was arrested for mutilating the Velasquej picture of Veiius in the National Art Gallery,.has beas sentenced to six months' imprisonment. .The Magistrate commented en the anomaly in the law which provided six months' imprisonment for daroairfug a work of art and eighteeii Mouths for smashing windows. When the accused appeai-ed at Bow Street Police Court she was in a weak condition through hunger-striking. Sho said she had been tvn s : ft student, but cared moro far justice than art, Tho nation was cither deaxl or asleep, as women had vainly tojoctevd at tlso. doors of Ministers, Archbishop, and' even tho King. | OTHER OCTIUGES. London, March 12. : Nora Smyth, a sculptor, was fined £15 for striking a police Ecrgeajit on the neck with a drumstick duritig a demonstration at Bow Street. Helen Crawford was sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment for..smashing ' tho Army recruiting, ofiieo windows in ; Glasgow, as a" protest against Mrs. PankhurstV arrest. ■ • • :, . A mansion at Stewartou was fired, by ' Suffragettes as a protest against tho «tr--: rest of Mrs. Pankhurst. A Suffragette. deputation wafted on Glasgow Magistrates and protested ati llio brutal treatment hy tho police, cf Mrs. Pankhurst. Tho Magistrates ordered the Chief Constable to submit a Report. There is a widespread deisand. for more severity tow.firds jH.ilitaftt Suffra-Rett-es, some letters; suggesting,' that. they should be allotted to stftrVo: '' ' fl . .. . ■ ■ -■'' ■ WOMEN'S VOTE IN SOtJTH iIEEUCA. (Rec. March 13, 955 p.m.) . i. Caps town* I&tfch 13.. In the Assembly the Women's EnfriMvchisement Bill hiss been,' read a iiret time. .