WOMEN'S FRANCHISE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3028, 27 October 1908, Page 5

WOMEN'S FRANCHISE

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph Copyright,

TRIAL OF SUFFRAGETTES. PRISONERS ELECT TO GO TO GAOL. DEMONSTRATION IN COURT. Received October 26, 9 a.m. LONDON, October 25. The adjourned hearing of the charges against Mrs Pankhurst, Mrs Drummond, and Miss Christabel Pankhurst, of having acted in a manner calculated to pruvoke a breach' of the peace in urging women suffragists and their sympathisers to rush the House of Commons on the opening day, was resumed yesterday at the Bow street Police Court. After hearing twenty-seven witnesses, Mr Curtis Bennett, the magistrate, refused to permit waste of time of the Court in listening to a further ?trirg of evidence testifying to the orderly nature of the suffragette crowd on the date in London. He bound Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Drummond in the sum of £2OO each to keep the peace for a year; in the alternative three months' imprisonment. Miss Christabel Pankhurst was fined £IOO, with the alternative of ten weeks' imprisonment. Miss Pankhurst made an emotional speech of an hour's length, and burst into tears. Mrs Pankhurst also sobbed when concluding an address. After the magistrate's sentence the prisoners dramatically elected to go to prison. The officials failed to suppress a loud and continued suffragette demonstration in Court.