The Suffragetts
A FEMALE FIRE-RAISER,
CAUGHT RED-IUNDED AT
GLASGOW.
By Cable Press Association—Copyright
Received 24, 11.25 p.m
London, .June 24,
l l lances Gordon, the suffragette, was sentenced to a year's gaol at Glasgow for lire-raising.
The Riitherglen caretaker, hearing a noise, rushed to the courtyard and discharged a revolver. The prisoner appealed to him not to shoot. She carried a handbag, containing three flasks of paraffin and other inflammable articles. The prisoner, before sentence was declared, said her action was due to the ghastly horrors of the white slave traffic.
Mr. McKenna, in reply to a question, said the owners and lessees of public halls had been warned of the consequences of letting them to the Women's Social Political Society, inasmuch as crimes often followeJ the speakers' incitements to violence.
ANOTHER CHURCH THREATENED.
London, June 23.
Mrs. Pankhurst has been discovered yachting on the Norfolk Broads. She is to be shadowsd.
A bomb was discovered in the porch of St. Mary's Church, Reading, following a threat to destroy it The fuse had been lighted.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 30, 25 June 1914, Page 5
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175The Suffragetts Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 30, 25 June 1914, Page 5
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