THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 66, 26 March 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

NINE TO FEED ONE. SUFFRAGETTE’S ROUGH TIME. 'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.; (United Press Association.) London, March 16. Three medical men have complained that Lilian Lenton, one of the suffragettes, was forcibly fed at Holloway Gaol, London, by two doctors and seven wardresses. They allege that she was tied to a chair, and her head dragged backwards across the back of the chair by her hair, and that food was twice forced into her nostrils. The first time it did not go through, and the second time it caused violent choking, so that it was almost impossible for the woman to breathe, and the food was ejected through the mouth. The tube was then removed, and Lenton fell against'the wall. She continued to cough and complain of pain extending from the waist upwards accompanied by a rattling noise when she breathed.

In the night her temperature rose to 102 degrees, and she was’ in a pneumonic condition.

PELTING M.T'.’S

-(Received 9.15 a.m.) London, March 25

Magistrates fined two suffragettes for throwing sausages and polonies at Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., and Mr Snowdon, M.P., as they were leaving the Labor Conference.