Female Criminals.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 14 July 1914, Page 5

Female Criminals.

MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES. FURTHER OUTRAGES. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, July 13.

A bomb, with a burning fuse attached, was discovered while evensong was in progress at St. John’s, Westminster. A suffragette who was quitting the building was arrested. The bomb consisted of a canister nine inches high, and contained gunpowder and meal filings, and was timed to explode in an hour. The prisoner is a militant suffragette, and had been closely watched for the past few Sundays. Suffragettes burned the railway station at Blaby. A postbag which exploded on the Blackpool-Manchester train, ignited six bags,also a portion of the van. The guard was badly burned in extinguish-' ing the fire; which is attributed to the suffragettes.

THE NOTICE ON THE BLACKBOARD. Sydney, July 13. Mi si Pankhurst, the suffragette, arranged to address the lad ystudents at tlio University.. A wag placed a notice on the blackboard in the common room, to the effect that the whole of the students of the University were invited to attend. When the male students trooped up and were refused admittance they expressed their disappointment by opening the windows and throwing crackers into the lectureroom, with loud vocal demonstrations, and throwing stones \on the roof. Eventually Miss Pankliurst’s overtures restored peace.

THE PERPRETRATOR’S INTENTION. (Received 11.0 a.m.) London, July 13. Annie Bell, the perpetrator of the St. John’s outrage, was released under the Cat and Mouse Act. She told the Court she intended to blow up the Church. -