THREE YEARS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 74, 4 April 1913, Page 5

THREE YEARS.

MRS PANKHURST’S TERM.

SCENES AT THE TRIAL

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9.0 a.in.) London, April 3. Mrs Panklmrst declined to testify. Her speech was a protest against women not being tried by their peers. She gave a catalogue of man-made laws, and said that the divorce law alone was sufficient to justify a revolution. She would refuse to eat directly she was sentenced.

The Judge told the jury that prisoner’s remarks were wholly outside the case, and Mrs Pankhurst was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. The suffragettes in the Court cheered wildly, and sang “The Marseillaise.” The Judge threatened to commit them to prison if they did not stop the indecent exhibition. HOUSE-BURNING. Two unoccupied houses in Hampstead Gardens Suburb was discovered to be alight early in the morning, but the outbreak was extinguished with little damage. A CHURCH SET ON EIRE. London, April 3. The Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church was discovered to be on fire. The flames were extinguished by the police. The officials of Scotland Yard had previously been told by the minister that the suffragettes intended to commit an outrage. BILL IN PARLIAMENT. London, April 3. The Suffrage Bill that is promoted by the militant suffragettes has been road a second time. Mr Keir Hardie’s hostile amendment had only eight supporters. FORCIBLE FEEDING. London. April 3. Mr McKenna announced that forcible feeding would not he employed in future, unless in the case of prisoners who had committed offences dangerous to the public.