The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-02
Elaborate Plans Made by suffragcttes
to Destroy Every One of Them
In the City OF
London.
EVIDENCE WAS FOUND
Letters and Diagrams, Together With
Detailed instructions Were
Discovered at Head
quarters.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
LONDON, May 2.-The six militant
suffragettes arrested at Wednesdays
raid on the Womens' Social and Polit-
ical union headquarters, were arraign-
ed today in Bow street police court
on charges Of conspiracy, along with
Miss Annie Kenney, arrested yester-
day at Dover when she returned from
France; Sydney G. Drew, the printer
who published the Banner Suffragette
and Edward G. Clayton, the Richmond
chemist
All of the prisoners were grouped
together in the dock and their appli-
cations for separate trials denied
Archibald H. Bodkin, appearing as
prosecutor, in his opening statement
read several letters alleged to have
been written by Clayton to Miss Ken
ney. Some were found In the Kings
said, We're found in Miss Kenney's S
fiat, which the Scotland Yarders
searched while she was in Paris con.
ferring with Miss Christabel Pank-
hurst.
The letters detailed plan to burn
1 all the lumber yards of London as
we'll as several government buildings.
\ They included diagrams Of yards and
/ buildings, the locationsXand hours Of
4 wafchmen and similar Information.
1 One letter referred to burning the
j telephone exchanges of London and
Clayton gave much information about
4 the working of inf1ammable chemicals
\ and how fires could be started with
4 and alcohol.
Bow street police court was crowd
4 ed with suffragettes, and thousands
Of curious persons gathered in the
street outside to see the prisoners,
4 who had been in Jail without bail
since their arrest.
Sydney G. Drew was arrested today
and taken to Bow street police court
charged with printing yesterdays is
sue of the Suffragette. Drew has an
obscure printing Office, and as he left
his label off the militant publication
Scotland Yard had great difficulty in
running Drew down. Drew faces two
charges, having violated British
!, law forbidding printers to issue any
, thing without their labels. and also
; being in conflict with the home Of
fees edict that anyone publishing
suffragette literature would be prose
! cuted
!, Suffragettes Undaunted.
tBy Ed. l.. Keen, London correspond
ent of the United Press Association
! LONDON, May 2.-Far from being
daunted by what they call the "be
lated activity of Home Secretary
McKenna, who ordered Wednesdays
raid on the Wcmen's Social and Po
Ilitical Union headquarters, the mill
tant suffragettes of Great Britain are
greatly encouraged. They look upor
! the action of the home office as 'gov
ernment recognition and declare tha
: by such methods the government ha:
shouldered the publicity of the mill
: tants' campaign.
: In fact the suffragettes view tht
:. raid and the suppression of the Suf
fragette as what Americans would
call "bonehead play" Miss Eliza
: beth Robins, formerly OF Louisville
KY, an American suffragette sym
pathizer who is now at Henfeld, to
day summed up the situation for th'
United Press Miss Robins is al
: author of note, having written severa
popular books and many widely reat
\ magazine articles on suffrage ant
militancy
"The British government not onl.
J has utterly failed to deter militanc'
y by this great act of repression Mis-
y Robins said, but actually has ad
y vanced 1t appreciably,
"Militancy's aim is essentially con
! struction and not destruction, but ;
certain amount of destruction ha'
been necessary to make the peopl
r take notice 1t is tremendously dit
r ficult, in busy world. to get peopl'
y to stop long enough to consider ou
needs, and hence 1t is necessary t
startIe and shock them bit. Tha
has been the reason for all our act
of so-called violence.