WILD WOMEN IN COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2151, 18 May 1914, Page 5

WILD WOMEN IN COURT

SHRIEK AT THE MAGISTRATE

ANT) FIGHT WITH THE POLICE (By Talojraph.—Press Association.) London, May 15. Mrs. Dacro Fox, tho Suffragette, rearrested for annoying Lord Lansdowne, shrieked for twenty minutes at the Westminster Polico Court, and tho hearing of tho charge against her had to bo suspended. i Mrs. Driimmoiid, who was arrested for keeping vigil on Sir Edward Carson's doorstep, endeavoured to shout down tho Magistrate. IJoth women wcro sentenced to a month's imprisonment, in default of finning securities. Mrs. Drummond fought tho polico when being removed from the. dock. Lilian Mitchell, chargejl at l.'irmm;:hrer. with making inciting spceoiies, also endeavoured to shout down tho Magistrate. Slio was remanded. MRS. DETJMMOND'S VIGIL. BREAKFAST ON~SIR E. CARSON'S DOORSTEP. "Times" and RyJnev "Snu" Services. London, May i">. Mrs. Drummond, tho Suffragette, driving a motor, commenced her \igil at Sir Edward Carson's houso at 0 o'clock in tho morning. She was rrovided with breakfast on tho doorstep and lef c the house at mid-day. ( She attempted to throw a document at Sir' Pltlward's car. Later, she pgain occupied tho doorstep till 3 o'clock, vlen she was arrested. HUNGER-STRIKER ELUDES THE AUTHORITIES. (Rec. May 17, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 16. Mrs. Mary Wood,, who was sentenced for slashing Sargent's portrait of Henry James in tho Royal Academy, and who was subsequently released for hunger-striking, has eluded tho authorities. Tho polico aro watching tho nursing homo from which sho disappeared.