VIOLENT SUFFRAGETTES.
LADY LYTTON GOES TO GAOL. By Cable.- -l'rcsa Association.—Copyright London, October 11. Three more suffragettes at Newcastle were sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard labor and two to fourteen days' imprisonment, all lor window breaking. Lady I .ytton and another were giv?n the option of being bound over to keep the peace or a month's imprisonment. They chose the latter. I A CIVIL SUIT. A ROUGH EXPERIENCE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received October 1-2, 1 ].50 p.m. London, October 12. Mi's. Leigh lift*' commenced a civil suit against Mr. Herbert Gladstone (Home Secretary), and the governor and doctor of the Birmingham prison. She states she was handcull'ed after breaking the windows of lier coll and starved for four days, and then two doctors, t'lie matron and eight wardresses tilted a chair backward and forcibly fed her through the nostrils. Mrs. Leigh broke the windows of the hospital cell, and was dually put to lied in • padded cell. She piled the bed, table and.chair against tiie door, keeping t.ie warders out for three hours.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 212, 13 October 1909, Page 2
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175VIOLENT SUFFRAGETTES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 212, 13 October 1909, Page 2
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