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DOCTOR HORSEWHIPPED BY A SUFFRAGETTE. By Telcßraph-Press Association—CoDyrieM Lcndon, March 16. A Suffragette 'horsewhipped Dr. Devon, n Scottish Prison Commissioner, when he was entering Glasgow Prison, lho Suffragette was knocked down, but Has not arrested. Suffragettes set firo to some Midland Railway carriages at King's Norton, six miles from Birmimjhani. Six were destroyed and three badly damaged. "SERVE HER RIGHT!" THE PUBLIC AND THE HUNGER STRIKERS. "Times" and Bydney "Sun" Services. Lender), March 16. Dr. Mercier, in a letter to tlio Press, considers that the authorities exaggerate- the outcry which would follow the death of a hunger striker; The general verdict, he says, would be "Serve her right! , ' Tho value of human life. Dr. Mercicr continues, is over-estimated just as much as it was under-estimated a century ago, when 500 people would have been simultaneously sentenced to death at Newgate. Dr. Merrier recommends that, if the authorities shrink from ■ allowing theso criminali. to inflict' the death sentences on themselves, they should proclaim them outlaws..
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 7
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166OUTRAGES CONTINUE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 7
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