THE SUFFRAGETTES.
' . A "SLEEP" STRIKE. London, July 30. Wrs Edith Rigby, the suffragette, who confessed to the Rivington Hill and Li verpool Cotton ■ Exchange outrages, has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. , Miss Sylvia Pankhurst is adding asleep strike to her hunger strike in prison, She has declared that she will walk her cell continuously until she compels her release. New York, July !10: A suffragette doctor from Chicago defied the poliee to-day by bathingin Lake Michigan without ■skirts. She declared that the law was a gross attack on women's rights, and insulting to a natural sense of decency. . She'was arrested.
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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 1 August 1913, Page 3
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