Startling Protests.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1914, Page 5

Startling Protests.

MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES.

RICHARDSON AND PANKHURST.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Uhitvo Press Association.) (lleecivod 8.50 a.in.)

London, March 10

Miss Mary Richardson, a well-known suffragette, was committed for trial for inflicting several rents in the picture of “Venus,” the value of which was depreciated from £IO,OOO to £ls-, 000. Bail was allowed. Miss Richardson, whose boast is that she is not unwilling to die,attempted to destroy “The Most Beautiful Woman of .Mythology” as a protest against the Government destroying All's Pankhurst, “the most beautiful character of modern history.”

i A crowd of suffragettes picketed the Glasgow railway station throughout the night. The police in the morning forced Mrs Pankhurst struggling on a stretcher into a motor car. The suffragettes in another car daringly pursued it to Coat bridge, where a London train specially stopped and picked up Mrs Pankhurst and the two detectives.

l Mrs Pankhurst is hunger-striking. I Suffragettes are picketing the London termini and Holloway Gaol. THE ARREST OF MRS PANK* HURST, London, March 10. Mrs Pankhurst was captured at Glasgow while attempting to escape, and was bundled into a motor-car. Hundreds of women attempted to rescue her, but the mounted police rushed the crowd, and Mrs Pankhurst was taken to the police station. Meanwhile the light continued in the hall. A dozen women on the I platform produced stout truncheons, stood behind a harhed-wire fence concealed by flowers, and hurled flowerpots and chairs, and poured pails of water on the police who were attempting to scale the four-foot platform. The police used their batons freely • Many women fainted. Later a crowd attempted to storm the police station, but several hundred constables repulsed them.

“JUSTICE TO WOMANHOOD.”

“KILLING MRS PANKHURST.”

(Received 11.0 a.m.) London, March 10.

The National Art Gallery and the Wallace collection have been closed till further notice.

To her previous statement Miss Richardson added: “Mrs Pankhurst seeks justice to womanhood, and fortius sire is being slowly murdered by the Government of Iscariot politicians.

Police men gave evidence that when arrested, Miss Richardson remarked: “I am the suffragette who broke the picture. You can get another picture, but you cannot get another life, as they are killing Mrs Pankhurst.” Replying to the magistrate, Miss Richardson expressed contempt for a Government which did not treat all persons equally, adding: “Mr McKenna cannot make me serve a sentence ; he can only repeat the farce of releasing or else kill me. Either way is victory.”

USE OF THE HATCHET.

(Received 9.10 a.m.) London, March 10

Suffragettes with a hatchet badly damaged the Velasquez “Venus” at the National Art Gallery.

Mrs Panhurst has been removed to London.

The Velasquez “Venus” was purshased by public subscription in 1906 at a cost of £-15,000.

COPING WITH THE TROUBLE.

(Received 9.45 a.m.) London, March 10

Mr Asquith, replying to a suggestion to extend the provisions of the Maliciono injuries in Ireland Act to Britain owing to outrages by suffragettes, especially Richardson’s, said he was not satisfied it would have the effect desired.