The Suffragettes

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 265, 7 April 1914, Page 5

The Suffragettes

ANOTHER MAD OUTRAGE \ EXPLOSION IX A CHURCH. ' By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, April (jr. Half an hour after evensong at St. Martin's-in-Fields, the police heard an explosion and found in the southern aisle pieces of a lio;;il> and the remnants of a rubber bu-. Two stained glass windows and a pew were shattered. Suffragettes are suspected. AX UXKXOWX WOMAX IN THE CASE. Received <j, 10.35 p.m. London, April G. St. Martin's Church was filled with a dense smoke. The fire brigade was summoned. The pew below the pulpit was blown up. The bomb exactly resembled that exploded in Archdeacon Wilberforee's St. John's Church early in March, when the explosion occurred half-an-hour after evensong, and the outrage was connected with the suffragettes by means of a scrap of payer: During the service the occupants of the pew were a prominent church member and an unknown woman, aged about 35. FURTHER DETAILS OF THE OUT- ! RAGE. Received fi, 10.55 p.m. 1 London, April C. A candle was inserted in the lid of the canister, and placed under the seat. Apparently eighty minutes elapsed before contact with the gunpowder.. Some accounts say the canister was wrapped in suffragettes' literature and contained clockwork. WOMAN'S INHUMANITY TO WOMAN. SUFFRAGETTES ROUGHLY HANDLED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received (i. 5.30 p.m. London, April 5. Militants whe sought to distribute suffragist literature among ilaxmill girls at Rlackpool, Cork, were roughly handled. The girls assaulted them with their fists. tore their hats oil' and pulled their hair.