Hosing the Suffragette.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4484, 4 November 1909, Page 2

Hosing the Suffragette.

London, November 2. In the House of Commons in connection with the hosing of the suffragette, Miss Strangeways, who barred the door with her plank bed, and refused to open it* Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, explained that the visiting committee to Manchester gaol were afraid to break down the door lest the walls should" fall. The hose was ordered to be placed firstly on the ceiling and then for two or three minutes on the suffragettes shoulders. The hinge of the door was next removed and the prisoner conveyed to the hospital. The committee are anxious to support the officials and authorities t# act in the way best likely to lead to injury, but in bis opinion the committee guilty grave error of judgment.