SUFFRAGE CONSPIRACY CHARGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3825, 7 May 1913, Page 5

SUFFRAGE CONSPIRACY CHARGES.

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[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] LONDON, May 5. The hearing of the case against seven women and a man named Clayton, a consulting analyst, charged with conspiring with Mrs Pankhurst and others to damage property, was resumed to-day. Mr Bodkin, K.C., for the prosecution, described Mrs Drummond, one of the arrested women, as violent and unscrupulous. He said that Miss Annie Kenney had made inflammatory speeches. Clayton, in return for payment, had prostituted his knowledge of science to the furtherance of crime, producing what their newspapers miscalled a reign of terror. Documents showed that a man named Buckner, of Hamburg, wrote to Miss Kerr, one of the defendants, telling her how to terrorise audiences with a powder, causing violent sneezing and severe irritaten of the skin.

REPRESENTATION TO WOMEN. BILL IN THE COMMONS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] LONDON. May 5. In the House of Commons, Mr W. Hi Dickinson, Liberal member for St. Pancras North, moved the second reading of the Bill giving representation to women. He said it was a gross injustice to- wthihold the vote owing to the criminal acts of a few. The Bill should be passed, but would be inoperative until a referendum of women shewed that they desired the right to vote.

A bomb with sufficient- nitro-glycer-itm to wreck the building, was found in the Post Office.

THE PRISONERS REMANDED. DEBATE IN THE HOUSE. (Received Mav 6. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 6. Mr Bodkin, continuing his addre-s 5 in the conspiracy cases, detailed a scheme which had been submitted to Mrs Drummond. It showed how, at a cost of £2O, dockyards could be fired causing £20,000 damage.

Nina Boyle and Annie Munroe. leaders of the Women’s Freedom League, were arrested at the meeting at Hv-de Park.

Drew, the publisher of ,- The Suffragette”. apologised and promised not to print- further for the suffragettes. He was bound over in the sum of £ISOO.

The rest of the prisoners were remanded.

Ail were bailed out. except Mrs Drummond and Annie Kenney, who shouted that they would hungerstrike.

The suffragette debate in the House of Commons was apathetic. Many speakers emphasised the fart that militancy had given the movement a strong 6 set back. Mr Arnold "Ward (Unionist) moved the Bill's rejection.

Fourteen suffragist M.’*P. circularised their colleagues stating that while they would support the second reading of Mr Dickinson’s Bill they would vote against the third reading unless an amendment were carried to bring the measure into line with the original conciliation Bill.