WOMEN’S FRANCHISE.
SUFFRAGISTS BEFORE THE COURT. ELECT TO GO 1 TO GAOL. United Press Association. Copyright " LONDON. July 2/ • j Twenty, suffragists ,at AVestminster ■Police Court were bound over in security of £2O to keep tlie peace for d. •year ,in default to receive a month’s imprisonment. Five were bound over in "two securities of £25 to keep the peace for one year, in- default three months’ imprisonment. One was bound over in £lO to keep the peace for six months,! and one was discharged. .. ." Lord Russell, defending" ono, contended that tlieir opinions regarding the franchise were tantamount to a religious belief entitling them to imprisonment as first division misdemeants.
The defendants elected to go to prison.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2234, 4 July 1908, Page 3
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117WOMEN’S FRANCHISE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2234, 4 July 1908, Page 3
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