THE SUFFRAGETTES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10674, 22 July 1912, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES

CABLS NEWC

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(OUTRAGE IN DUBLIN

FOUR WOMEN COM M2 TIED FOE, TRIAL.

(Received Last Night, S.,a .o'clock))

LONDON, -July 20. Gladys Evans, Mary Leigh (who £hre.w ift. Lhatchet at Mr Asquitli), Lizzie Bidkcr, and Mary Capper (all English women) have been .committed ffor trial rtt Dublin on a charge .of conMp'r.i.nti to enivp grievous bodi-Jjy har.-n ami malicious damage. The evidence went to show that., but . fw the action of the men, the theatre | would have been burnt, and many 1 fatalities would have resulted.. The attendant foti-K-d a basket frill of ligltte-rs well alight. The canpets were oatumtfU wjlili petrol, an dan a'tarinimr er,plosion occurred. Several suffragettes left England for Dublin, where they were closely watched,. Leigh admits that she threw an axe at Mr Ma 1 O'Buien. il'ic Chief Marshall, tried to prevent her, but she fought with .him, and tore his epaulettes. Evans was captured while trying to set fire to the cinematograph box in j the Theatre Royal when the house was emptying. She put a handbag containing gunpowder into the box, and attempted to throw lighted matches on to it.

Ths caruet, which wins saturated with petrol, burst into flames, and an explosion occurred. Two soldiers extinguished the flames. Another woman, who was apparently, not arrested, and wis in a private box in the theatre, set a curtain afire, after saturating it with ipetrol. At the defendants' lodgings the police found rubber gloves, a small quantity of oil, and matches. Capper joined the other three shortly before their arrest. The accused were offered bail.