FORCIBLE FEEDING OF A SUFFRAGETTEE.
Received December 10, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, December 9. In the fiction before the King's Bench against Home Secretary, and the Governor of Birmingham Priron on a charge of forcibly feeding a surft'agette, the verdict was for defendants, with costs. , Mrs Leigh was plaintiff in the suit. She alleged that she was handcuffed after breaking the windows of her cell, and starved for four days. Then two doctors, a matron, and eight wardresses tilted her chair backward and forcibly fed her through the nostrils.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9673, 11 December 1909, Page 5
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88FORCIBLE FEEDING OF A SUFFRAGETTEE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9673, 11 December 1909, Page 5
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