PETTICOAT VANDALS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2168, 5 June 1914, Page 7

PETTICOAT VANDALS

HATCHET OUTRAGE AT THE DORE GALLERY PRISON DOCTOR WHIPPED By Telojraph-PKsa Aeeociatlon-CoriyrisUt London, June 3. A yonng Sulfiagetto named Ivy Bon smashed two pictures in the Doro Gallery. Ono was Uartoloazi's "Lovo Wounded," an almost priceless picture, and the other Chapland's "Grand Canal, Venice," wliirli is of minor value. An attendant named Boiirlct seized tlio woman, who tmdly wounded him with a hatchet. The .assailant was disarmed and carried, kicking and screaming, to the Police Station, whero she was committed for trial. Bon had only just been released, earlier in the day, after a period of hunger-striking. Two Suffragettes waylaid Dr. Forward, of Holloway Gaol, and horsewhipped him as a, protest against forcible feeding. They were arrested and hound over. Two others were arrested for assaulting policemen with hunting-crops outside Holloway Prison. "Poor DementsrJ Creatures." Dolphine I'ratt and Sarah Slater, arrested ut Buckingham Palace gates yesterday, wero each fined 505., or a month's imprisonment. At Bow Street Pratt attempted to stop the proceedings by pouring out a torrent of abuse. Both women were removed struggling. Tho Magistrate said: "Poor demented creatures, I'm sorry for you." Two Suffragettes, one of whom is a giantess, entered the "Belfast Telegraph" office and knocked Mr. Stewart, the editor, out of his chair. She similarly attacked Mr. Anderson, editor of tho "Newsletter." Neither woman was arrested. Suffragettes tired an unoccupied villa in Belfast. The tiro was extinguished. Two arrests wore niado. (Reg. Juno 4,10.45 p.m.) London, jimo 4. Tho Suffragettes who sot firo to tho villa in Belfast have been identified. One of them is Madgo Muir, of Birmingham, and tlio other a woman named Larmour of Glasgow. Muir was dressed as a man. Addressing the Bench, she complained that milihnnds at Belfast Wore stripping and spanking Suffragettes. PLOT AGAINST PRINCE HENRY. (Rec. June 4,10.45 p.m.) London, Juno 4. . The police wero informed of a Suffragette plot against Princo Henry (tho King's son), who is at Eton, anil sent two detectives down to secure his safety. Mrs. Pankhurst is living at Grosvenor Place, overlooking Buckingham Palace.' Tho police are watching the house, and have a motor-ear always at hand, ready to remove her to Holloway Prison should tiie necessity arise. Tho King liar, discontinued his morning rides in Rotten Row.'