THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

31RS RANK HURST DISMAYED. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, February 27. Mrs Pankhnrst is to be tried at the May Assizes. She was dismayed on finding that she would not be tried at the current sittings, and agitatedly declared that she would not have a fair trial if kept in custody. Her punishment would begin forthwith, as she was a hunger striker. If alive in the summer, it would be a dying woman that would be placed on trial. Mrs Pankhurst has issued a statement, since bail was refused, to the effect that she repudiates the right of the authorities to try her. “Englishmen have a right to Ire tried by their own peers. That right is denied to women.” Therefore she would not consent to a legal farce to comply with prison discipline. A woman was arrested at the AllEngland Tennis Ground, at Wimbledon, carrying a bag containing firelighters, shavings and oil. Suffragettes attempted to fire the Rockhampton sports pavilion. The women escaped, but a man was arrested. A quantity of combustibles was discovered, with a card inscribed : “This was done because Mrs Pankhurst was refused bail.” Much correspondence has been destroyed by phosphorous in pillar-boxes at Nottingham . A suffragette literature stall at Wallsall was wrecked and a large demonstration in the Coronation Hail at Worthing was broken up. Exciting scuffles ensued, and the crowd attempted to duck the suffragettes in a horse trough. OUTRAGES CON ITNIJED. (Received 10.25 a.in.) London, February 27. Joyce Locke has been committed for trial on a charge of burning a teahouse at Kew. LILIAN LENTON’S RELEASE. Magistrates are indignant at Lilian Lenton’s release. Prosecuting counsel explained that sho is suffering with pleurisy and pnemonii. .Magistrates have issued a warrant for Lenton’s re-arrest in order to have the Home Secretary’s explanation. GREEN PAINT AS A COSMETIC. Mon caught some women painting “votes for women” on the seats at Chamstead, and pulled down their hair and smothered their faces and hair with green paint.