"THE BOMB NEXT TIME."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9132, 3 July 1908, Page 5

"THE BOMB NEXT TIME."

SUFFRAGETTES SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT.

Received July 2, 11.21 p.m. LONDON, July 2. A Mrs Leigh wa3 amongst those arrested by the police during the assault on the House of Commons. When arrested she shouted, "It will be a bomb next time." She and MiS3 New, organiser of the suffragettes, were sentenced to two month's imprisonmtrt at Bow Street, without the option of a fine, for smashing Mr H. H. Asquith's windows. Both had previouly been convicted. Justice Marsbam, in sentencing them, remarked that he would make it a second division sentence. He commented, during the hearing, on the seriousness of'the bomb threat. This, he pointed dut, was an offence which was punishable by hanging. The defendant" replied that they did not anticipate any necessity for going further than they had done. Miss New added: "I cannot say what my future actions may be. They depend upon the Government doing justice to women." Mrs Leigh said: "We have no course but to rebel against the pressure of one man. He must yield or pay the penalty. We realise the seriousness of the position, and hope [he Government realists the seiious position of affaits." ' Justice Marsham declared that women were likelier to obtain their object by gentle means than by other metnods. If the attempt to terrify men was unsuccessful it would besides alienate the sympathy of a large number of men who otherwise were believers in the cause.