VOTES FOR WOMEN.
TWO SUFFRAGETTES FINED. THE GUILDHALL INCIDENT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received November 11, 10.35 p.m. LONDON. November 11. At the Police Court to-day Amelia Brown, described as having no )ccupation, and Alice Paul, a student, were fined five pounds and costs, in default one month's imprisonment, for breaking a window at the Guildhall banquet. They obtained admission as charwomen, and participated in the preparing of the room for the banquet, subsequently concealing themselvep. They were found in possession of a bottle of milk and a stomach pump, which they had intended to present to Mr H. H. Asquith as an illustration of the forcible feeding methods adopted in regard to Suffragetce3. The alderman who presided on the Bench, severely commented on the hysterical tactics adopted by the Suffragettes, and the inexcusable damaging of an hitsoric building. -
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9647, 12 November 1909, Page 5
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141VOTES FOR WOMEN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9647, 12 November 1909, Page 5
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