THE WINDOW SMASHERS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 211, 5 March 1912, Page 5

THE WINDOW SMASHERS

RINGLEADERS IMPRISONED OR COMMITTED. HEAVIER PUNISHMENTS URGED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 3. Mrs. Pankhurst was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and several others to periods varying from fourteen days to two months. The majority of those arrested were remanded or committed for trial on charges of doing damage to an amount over £IOO each. There is an outcry against suffragettes' (H^"-'- I r;t ; 'ns. The newspapers urge prosecution under the Conspiracy Act, thus giving heavy punishments. Mr. Edward Fordham, the London Magistrate, complains of the tendency to inflict light punishment. In sentencing Mrs. Pankhurst, the magistrate said the suffragettes had brought the country to a state which was not allowed in any civilised land. If the law was ineffective, it musUJbe amended.

ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM. ORGANISED RAID ON POST OFFICE. Received 5, 13.50 a.m. London, March 4. The newspapers, discussing the suffragette raid, suggest that the conspiracy law enables the recovery of damages from the funds of the organisation directing the riid, equally with the chattels of individual raiders. A suffragette was arrested on Sunday night for dropping on to the floor of the -telegraphic department at the General Post Office, Romanbath street, London, a basket of blazing shavings, saturated with paraffin. It is understood that this was a prelude to an organised series of outrages on post offices.