THE SUFFRAGETTES
KEW GARDENS ATTACKED WINDOWS AND PRICELESS ORCHIDS DESTROYED. TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH WIRES CUT. By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright (Received February 9, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 9. Suffragettes at night entered two or-chid-houses in Kew Gardens, smashed thirty windows and uprooted priceless orchids. They did great damage otherwise. A woman smashed two £BO windows in Selfridge’s Stores. Suffragettes cut thirty telephone wires, including the trunk to Dumbarton, and five telegraph wires between Birmingham and Coventry. WINDOW SMASHERS SENTENCED. LONDON, February 8. Several suffragettes were sentenced to three and five months in the Second Division for window-smashing. Lenora Cohen was discharged. She was accused of the outrage at the Tower of London, but the jury did not agree. Tho cost of the damage done at the Tower was about £5.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 8
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128THE SUFFRAGETTES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 8
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