THINKS SHE'LL DIE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 546, 1 March 1913, Page 5

THINKS SHE'LL DIE.

MRS PANKHURST DISMAYED.

By Telegra.pli—Press Association. -Copyritfii London, Friday.

Mrs Pankhurst will be tried at the May Assizes. She was dismayed on ascertaining that she will not bo tried at the current sittinga.

In a state of great agitation she declared that she would not have a fair trial. If she were kept in custody her punishment would begin forthwith, as she would be a "hunger striker."

If she were alive when summer came, she declared, it would be a dying woman that would bo placed on trial.

In a statement issued since she was refused bail, Mrs Pankhurst repudiates the right of the authorities to try her. Englishmen, she says, have the right to be tried by their own peers, but that right is denied to women. Therefore she will not conaentoto a legal farce or comply With prisoi discipline.

SHE SINGE AGREES TO BEHAVE London, Friday. Mrs Pankhrust has since undertaken to refrain from inciting suffragettes to commit any more violence. She Was led to take this Btep owing to the fact that herhsalthis not satisfactory. She was subsequently bailed and re leased. Her trial has been transferred to the Old Bailey. Sylvia Pankhurst and four other suffragettes, who were forcibly fed in Holloway gaol, are reported to be seriously ill.