POLICE WAR ON THE VANDALS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2160, 28 May 1914, Page 5

POLICE WAR ON THE VANDALS

SUFFRAGETTES IN COURT

AMAZING AND PATHETIC v scenes . .; : H:. sentry-go over derby \ favourites :': : By Telcsrapls—rjfeee Assooiatioß—CoßrrifcWl Umtfan, May 28. Amazing and pathetic scenes were witnessed at. tsi« Quarter Sessions today. A Suffragette, need fifty years, who had heen reduced to a physical wreck through hunger-striking, was carried into Court-. Another, aged twentyfive, walked as in a dream, win!© a third collapsed and becnnio almost in-* sensible. Attendants constantly administered i-ostoratmss. All refused to Rive their names. They were sentenced to four months' imprisonment for win-dow-smashing, iiiid were assisted, staggering, out of Conrt. , ■ "You DMils!" Two of the Suffragettes who had, been arrested at Makfa Yale had to he carried into Court, where they lay in chairs. Oiw, Grace Ros, eiiddcnly leap* cd np, scroitining) iMd the two were carried out by the. police, who hold, their arms, bodies, aiid leg*. Nellie Hall, tho other, shrieked: "You devils! You beasts!" throughout. Sim fought tlso police as if dtmipnted, and was removed in a dishevelled state., her clothing being disniTiiEiKeiL the police meainvhite endeavouring to caa her. Mr. Bodkiu, K.C., for the Crown, stated that the documents saiwd at tho Suffragette headquarters nt Ms>idsi Valo included plans of a house at Let* cester, tho niOT«n»ents nf the jioiteo in tho vicinity, also a. description of a shrapnel gronmJo. Tlio poliFe liad also found a quantity of liigiily explosive fuses. •

Pictura-srflashei's Sentstised. Freda (irafem, a Snftrngette, was sentenced to s'ex months' imprisonment for damaaing fivs pictitres at t]te National Gallery, her pretext t.-oing that her act was in tlve iiiittiro of n pretest becauso tin? Kins lM*d reftjsed to receive a Suffrsgettc depntatwn. JVfar.v SpeiiTOi , received a similar snytence for dam-aging pictures at. the lloval Academy.

Several others ttere sontcnsecT to ffl'T months' "'inprisoiitttcnt for windowsmashing. DERBY FAVOURITES.' POLICE GIMB'DING BIAKESPEAB AM> .EEN'NYMORE. ' LoJKton, Jlttf 26. . Their Majesties tlio King and Qiieea will attend the Epsom Derby. Snecial preen iltions are Iα lib In&cn at Tntfconliitm Center in vimv nf fhe 1&13 outrage (whoit a SuJfrngottß Mined Elizabeth Davidson Sprang mlu ti;o track and .sekocl tin , . Kind's linrsa, Anmer, by tlw hritlte, as the swojrt past, and revived fatal, injuries). There will bo '« J.B;r®. fono <t |wli« thc-re, and triplo , rails *vill !;o erected te t'Sclu'ln the pfliiiirt ' Tlio polico will <h iiigiitnntl tlay senoutsidv) tho stntilo oCctißicd _t>y the King's horse, Brafel&pcar, and ?il§eat Kennymorft's , staWo. PLOT T0 gaODT (Rcc. Slay 27," 11.3D p.iti.) .- ...'!. , ..'. tondea, May 27. . Tlio "Daily Express" states 'that a; plot.lids been tHsresvcred to shoot Bwikospear, tho King's hp-rso. Tlio Snffrajrottos, at a. so'crqt meeting on Tuesday night, pwliicftd; r«volw«-s, and , drank to flie'success of flio'-plot, distoyaSTvanbals* "Tlmoa" and Si<!.Bey "Sim" e.«rtiGca. Lonslari, May 20. At the weekly niectiiig of Suffiragcitos the King's mm was greeted with Rroaiis and Ksses tetiMg for several minutes. . '.