WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 260, 27 October 1908, Page 2

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

OFFENDING LEADERS IN TEARS. ELECT TO GO TO GAOL. London, October 25. At the trial of the. su/ragist leaders on tile charge of inciting the recent disturbance outside the House of Commons, twenty-seven witnesses were culled to testify to the orderly behaviour of the suffragette crowd. After hearing these, Mr. Bennett, the Magistrate, r •• fused to permit the time of the Court to lie wasted in listening to a further string of evidence on this point. lie ordered Mrs, Pankhurst and Mrs. Drtimmond to give a bond of £3OO to keep the peace for a year, with tile alternative of three months' imprisonment; and Miss Pankhurst to give a. bond for £IOO, the alternative being ton weeks' imprisonment. Miss Pankhurst made an emotional speech of an hour's length. She then burst into tears. - Mrs. Pankhurst also concluded her speech sobbing. After the Magistrate had passed sen-tem-c, the prisoners dramatically declared thnl Ihey elected to go to prison. TJie officials failed in an attempt to suppress a loud and continued suffragette demonstration in the Court.