New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-22
PRISON DOORS OPENED
FOR 4 SUFFRACET1B
Hunger Strike, Begun on Tues.
day Last, Is Quickly Crowned
with Success.
MISS ANNIE KENNEY FRErn
Militant, After Hurting Bril-,
Through Window at Scotlar,
Yard Police Headquarters
Gets Three Weeks.

London, June Pill health. bro,.,
about by hunger striking" operea :.
prison doors to-day TO four OF n.
officials Of the Women's Social and D.
litical Union, the militant SUFFRAGE.
organization, who were sentences
Tuesday last to varying terms =, =
prisonment for conspiracy to Conn.,,
malicious damage to property.
The women, who were released
license, were Miss Annie Kennev NJ,
superintendent the organization q, .,
Women's Social and Political r,,o-
Mrs. Rachel Barrett, assistant ed,,o,
"The Suffragette"; Miss Agnes Lab.
business manager Of the militants
gan, and Miss Laura Geraldine i.
nox. a sub-editor.
Miss Kenney was serving a ts,r, =,
eighteen months Imprisonment w.,
Barrett nine months, and Misc Tai.
and Miss Lennox six months each ~
at hard labor. The prisoners dscls,,,
when sentence was pronounced ,h,,
they would refuse to eat and voul,
compel the prison authorities to rs,s,.
them.
Two Committed for Trial
The two militant suffragettes Kin,
Marion and Clara Elizabeth G,y.s,
who were charged on suspicion Of hsy.
ing set fire to the stands on the Hurt
Park racecourse on June 9 and Of cans.
ing damage amounting TO $4,000, wsrs
to-day committed for trial at the Az.
sizes.
Gertrude Shaw, a militant sum-.
gette, hurled a brick through a window
of the Scotland Yard police headqus,.
tiers this afternoon and subsequently
was sent to prison for a term Of thrs.
weeks. Miss Shaw is a member OF II.
Womens Social and Political Union
and was one Of the women who as.
tinguished themselves in April By
capturing the monument commemora,.
ing the great fire which destroyed tas
City Of London. Her exploit Of to-day
she declared. was a protest against ths
treatment OF Mrs. Emmeline PankhurS
and other suffragette prisoners.
An attempt to cause a breach IN d.
embankment Of canal by means Of az
explosion of gunpowder is reported to.
day from Yardley, Worcestershire 8
few miles from Birmingham. Some
suffrage literature was discovered In
the neighborhood. and the local police
regard this as proving that the miliXn.
suffragettes were responsible for tie
outrage.
Human Life Endangered.
The cavity caused by the exploso.
almost penetrated the bank Of he
canal, and a little more force would
have released eleven miles OF water
and have devastated the valley below
with almost inevitable loss Of life.
Militant suffragette larson squads
were out during last night al St An
drew's, Scotland. and at Southend. OF
the Lower Thames, and succeeded u
causing considerable damage AT s.
Andrews the fire fends" destroyed
the east wing Of the Gatty Marine
Laboratory connected with the W.
versity. Many valuable Instrument
scientific materials and charts were
burned 10 ashes. Inhammable oils an
cotton wool were used 70 insure us
brisk spread OF the flames, and u'
local police assert that they have s
cured clear evidence that the oUtEs"
was the work Of militant suffrageties
The object OF attack at Southend VIZ
the Church of St. John, q modern 81
costly edifce, completed only VA
ago. The organ loft was set on M
but II soon ceased TO burn, the danas'
caused being negligible. Cartridges
oiled rags and combustibles were ioua.
scattered around and a quantity z"
suffrage literature was left about I"
show the origin OF the outrage.
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