The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-07-11
SUFFRAGE1TE got
ENOUGH JAIL life
VERY SHORT ORDER
CHANGED HER MIND ON THE
QUESTION OF HUNGER AND
DEATH nv STARVATION.
VOWED SHE'D Die IN JAIL
Finally Accepted Release Under Law
Much Hased--Another Is Given a
Three Months Sentence on Failure
to Give Bond for Good Behavior.

| TO Give Bora TOT 0oou ocHov,o'.
/ LONDON, July 9.-Miss Kitty Ma
lrion, a suffragette who was seGtenc
ed July to three years penal servi
tude for setting fire to the Hurst
Park race court, was released from
prison tonight on the license. She
was in very weak condition.
When sentence was pronounced
upon her .diss Marion said: Il shall
hunger strike, and shall refuse to
leave prison under the cat and
mouse act. | shall insist upon stay
: ing there until dead or released free
woman"
An larson squad" of militant sutfra-
gettes burned the country residence
of Sir William H, Lever, founder OF
Port Sunlight and chairman of the
Liverpool School of Tropical Medi-
cine, early today at Rivington, near
Norwich, Lancashire. It was not oc-
cupied but contained valuable paint
ings and other precious objects. all
of which were consumed. A message
was left by the incendiaries stating
that If Sir William Lever had been as
loyal to the suffragettes as Lanca.
shire was to the king, who is now
paying an industrial visit to the in.
dustrial oenters Of the country, the
fire would not have happened. The
damage done lie over 100000.
Miss Sylvia Parkhurst was brougb.
up at Bow street police court today
and found guilty of melting people t.
commit disorders June 20, when she
led moo to Downing street to raid
the official residences of the premier
and the chancellor Of the exchequer.
She was ordered by the magistrate to
find sureties in $4,000 for good be-
havior for year or as an alternative
60 to prison for three months. She
elected to go to Holloway Jail, declar-
ing that she would at once start a
hunger strike and also 60 without wa.
ter. Archibald Bodkin, prosecuting
for the treasury, said the authorities
did not desire to punish her, but
merely prevent her making inflamato.
ry speeches. u
Miss Belle Emmerson, of Jackson,
Mich, Misc Mary Richardson and
Harry Golden, male sympathizer
with the woman suffrage movement
WHO were arrested last evening while |
trying to liberate Miss Sylvia Park
hurst from the hands of the police |
at Bromley, we're all sent to Jail by |
the police magistrate today. Miss |
who the police testified |
had melted mob of 500 obstruction
lists by shouting, What are you 60
ing to do" was given a months
hard labor and Harry Golden received
a similar sentence, but Miss Richard
son, who had assaulted the police
and broken window at the police
station, was sentenced to three
months.
Later Miss Emmerson and Golden
we're returned to court and fined $50
each, and, contrary to the suffra-
sette's custom, the fines were paid.
Miss Parkhurst, who defended her
self, called out in court:
Revolt is the only way left to us.
There will be rebellion, and the east
will march toward the west with
sticks and stones. If you drag me
back to prison under the Infamous
cat and mouse act / shall continue
to protest as long as life lasts. Very
probably soI,c Of us will die, but all
say it is worth it,"