The Wild Women

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 19, 10 June 1914, Page 5

The Wild Women

i- ',*■ —' —— . i •MORE OF THE SUFFRAGETTE ASTICS. PIKE'S ENTRY TO TIIE ROYAL PALACE. DESCRIBED AS A DRUNKARD'S FREAK. . ißy Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, June 8. A suffragette attempted to enter the -.arena and shrieked at the King. The .police carried her out. Later three Were carried out kicking and screaming. Trinity College students raided the Dublin suffragette offices, and threw the furniture out of the windows. Harry Pike, at the Bow Street Court, stated that he wanted to test the possibility of entering Buckingham Palace, because of the suffragette allusions to the subject. He admitted that he had toeen drinking for several days. He explained that he climbed the railings on -Constitution Hill and the spiked wall, ■ Bropped twenty feet into the area, gained admission through a basement window, and ascended the staircase to ' the long corridor at the top of the paltoe. He entered a room, changed bis torn clothing, and entered'' a second chamber, alarming two sleeping maidservants, and apologised for his mistake, finally he entered the room where -James Cople, the Queen's page, was sleeping. Cople awoke, pursued and . -captured Um / Mr. Muskett stated that Pike seemed respectable. His action was evidently a freak due to drinking. The police are inclined to accept tins' explanation. Cople gave evidence that the floor ; vhAfeSftke was- captured gave access to ''the palace. The Magistrate pointed out that there had oeen a theft of several articles. Pike was remanded for a week. A crowd attacked suffragettes at B•ford and pursued them to a local lead--«rfe residence and smashed the windows. "CRUSH THE"GOVERNMENT" BENEATH THE WEIGHT OF OUR GOLD. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 9, 6 p.m. London, June 0. . Miss Barbara Wylie, a suffragette, --•peaking at Knightsbridge, alleged that the Government had deliberately tried ■to make the imprisoned militants physi- " «al and mental wrecks, putting drugs in their food, which was forcibly administered. They were therefore justified in finding an antidote for such persons. In announcing the receipt of several ■large donations, Miss Wylie declared: -*TVe will crush the Government beneath -the weight of our gold." SUFFRAGETTES AND DIGNITY. ', AN IMPOSSIBLE AMALGAM. STRAIGHT TALK FROM A WOMAN. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 9, 10.15 p.m. . London, June 6. Mdlle Yvette Guilbert, the popular J French comedy actress, in an open letter to tha militants, after recalling her statitf9Pfeupport of the cause, deplores the present militancy, and says: "You lose your dignity when you lose your self-command. iou kill, you assassinate, an admirable caufee."