Criminal Acts.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1914, Page 5

Criminal Acts.

SUFFRAGETTES.

THE ART GALLERY OUTRAGE.

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.London, March 10

Tlie National Gallery was fairly well filled. A lady stood before the Velasquez "Venus," and studied it for a few moments, watched by the attendant policeman. While tii3 detectives were in an adjoining' .nailery she drew a small hatchet from her muff and dealt the picture a'terrific blow, shattering the glass and slashing the canvas. Five less powerful blows were delivered in ramd

succession, when the attendant policeman seized her. It has been ascertained that the cuts were so straight and clean that the damage can possibly be repaired for £IOG. The cuts made in Yalesquez's "Venus" were six inches long, and were all in the figure. There is little doubt that they can be repaired so that tlie slashes will be praeticdlv unnoticeable.

A number of suffragettes travelled lo London by the Pankhursts' train. The police stopped it at London Road, leaving the part containing tlie suffragettes in the tunnel, though the Pankhursts' carriage was at the pintform. The women tried to climb out, but the train proceeded, carrying them to Euston. Mrs Pankhurst, in a state of collapse, was taken to Holloway Prison. MORE INCENDIARISM. (Received .8.45 a.m) London, March 11. Suffragettes burned stacks at the Nottingham Corporation Sewage faim, doing several thousand pounds' wo ih of damage.

A POLICEMAN THRASHED.

MORE INCENDIARISM.

N (Received 10.50 a.m.) London, March 11

Gibbs, a quakeress, was fined £lO or four months' imprisonment for dogwhipping a policeman after Mrs Pankhurst's incarceration in Hollo way Gaol.

Suffragettes, using petrol, fired the woodwork of Parkhouse, Edgbaston. The flames burst out and slight' damage was done.