WOMEN'S FRANCHISE.
DEMONSTRATORS GO TO PRISON. Received July 3, 8.13 a.m. LONDON, July ?. Twenty suffragettes'at Westmins'.er Police Court were bound over, in security of £2O each, to keep t|ie peace for a year, in defiult a month's imprisonment. Five were v !>ound over in two securities of £25 each to keep the peace for a year, in default three months' imprisonment; one was bound over in £lO to keep the peace for six months, and one was discharged. The Hon. Charles Russell, in defending one of the women, contended that their opinions regarding the franchise was tantamont to a religious belief, entitling them to imprisonment as first division misdemeanants. The defendants elected to go to prison.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9133, 4 July 1908, Page 5
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116WOMEN'S FRANCHISE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9133, 4 July 1908, Page 5
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