THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 11, 13 June 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

NO DISLOYALTY INTENDED. FRESH OUTRAGES CONTEMPLATED. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, June 11. . The coroner, in summing up the evidence at . the inquest, said that he did not believe 5 Miss Davison .had intended to rush the King's horse in particular. Her intention was to create a disturbance. •At the suffragettes' trial, ..Detective Hawkins'gave evidence of having found in Miss Kennedy's bedroom suggestions in regard to outrages, which were in Clayton's handwriting, and also of having found in Clayton's rooms other suggestions, including a plot to interrupt the Premier's golf, and that suffragettes might get into Parliament and scratch the Speaker's face.

PETHRICK LAWRENCE. London, June 11. Mr Pethrick Lawrence has been adjudicated a bankrupt, owing to his refusal to pay damages granted against liiin for'the suffragette outrages. FURTHER EXPLOITS. BAG OF FLOUR IX THE COMMONS. London, June 11. While Mr. Asquith was addressing the House of Commons, a man named Lawrence Mervin, a . member*. of the Men's Suffragist Society, threw a bag of flour from the Strangers' Gallery. It missed Mr. Asquith and burst closd to the Speaker's chair. Mervin als» showered handbills on members and shouted something about Davison. Mr. Asquith, with a characteristic shrug of his shoulders, continued his speech amid cheers. Mervin has been detained. Suffragettes set Are to the confessional box of the historic St. Hubert's Church, at Great Ilarwood. The damage was slight. Kitty Marion, an actress, and Clara Given have been remanded on bail of £3OOO on a charge of setting fire to the grandstand at Hurst Park. The material found there corresponded with some found in Marion's room.