“SUFFRAGETTES’ FALLEN SOLDIER."

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3954, 10 June 1913, Page 5

“SUFFRAGETTES’ FALLEN SOLDIER."

ELIZABETH DAVIDSON DEAD. EXCITED PANKHURST MANIFESTO. PUBLIC FUNERAL ARRANGED. [UNITED PHERS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] . LONDON, June 8. Elizabeth Davison, the suffragette ■■who threw herself in front of the horses during the Derby race, is dead. ' (Received June 9, 11.30 p.m.) Davison did not speak after the accident. Her family do not support the militants, hut are willing that the Women’s Social Union should conduct the funeral. . Christabel Pankliurst, _in a manifesto, declares that Davison died to call attention to women’s wrongs, and if argument has not convinced Mr Asquith of the seriousness of the position, perhaps her death may. There will he a public funeral in lionor of a soldier fallen in the war of freedom. The Hurst Park lire was discovered at midnight. Three parts of the grandstand, including the Royal boxes, were destroyed. The stables wero speedily extinguished. Six incendiary fires were _ reported at Bradford on Saturday night. The first was in the offices of the Wool Merchants’ Association. Then Harrison’s printing works, where '£40,000 damage was done, were burned. Next came a boxmaker’s 50 yards away, and later a coachbuilder’s and country' school, and lastly a packingcase manufacturer’s, where the damage amounted to £IO,OOO. The total damage was £BO,OOO, and 400 people have been thrown out of work. Within the last forntight a dozen outbreaks have occurred within a hundred yards of Saturday’s outbreaks. Suffragettes are blamed, but direct evidence against them is lacking.. '