THE SUFFRAGETTES.
WINDOW BREAKING AT NEWCASTLE. SENTENCES OF IMPRISONMENT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. • Received October 12, 9 a.m. LONDON, October 11. Three more Suffragettes at Newcastle were each sentenced to a month's hard labour and two to fourteen clays each. The charge against all of them was window breaking. Lady Lytton and another were given the option of being bound over to keep the peace, or receive a month's imprisunment They chose the latter. Received October 12, 11.50 p.m. LONDON, October 12.
Mrs Leigh has commenced a civil suit against Hon. H. Gladstone (Home Secretary), and the Governor and Doctor of the Birmingham Prison. She states that she was handcuffed after breaking the windows of her cell, and starved for four days. Then two doctors, the matron, and eight wardresses tilted a chair backward and forcibly fed her through a nostril. Mrs Leigh broke the windows of the hospital cell, and was finally put to bed in a padded cell. She piled her bed, table and chair against the door, keeping the warders out for three hours.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9620, 13 October 1909, Page 5
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179THE SUFFRAGETTES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9620, 13 October 1909, Page 5
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