The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-06-19
SIX SUFFRAGETTES
ARE FOUND GUILTY
Jury Finds Against officers Of
Political Union.
MISS KeNNEY WoosI DEATH
Woman, In impassionsd Address, Ten.
e. ders Her Life While impalins
British Authorities--Mrs. Pank-
hurst Reported Near Death.

London, June 1S.-A verdict OF
guilty was returned in Old Bailey
court against the six militant suffra'
gette leaders and one male adherent
charged with malicious destruction OF
property. Those found guilty were
Harriet Rebecca Kerr, Annie Kenny,
Agnes Lake, Rachel Barrett, Beatrice
Saunders, Laura Lennox and +. A
Clayton, an analytical chemist.
Miss Kerr was sentenced to IL
months, Miss Lake to six months
Miss Barrett to nine months and Miss
Lennox to six months. IT.. o.
Mrs Saunders, the only married
woman among the defendants. got 10
months. Miss Kenney got the heaVi-
est sentence of all the women, name
ly, Is months. Clayton's sentence was
q months. Each defendant was also
assessed oneseventh of the costs OF
the trial
Miss Kenney became noisy when
sentence was imposed. She screamed
and grabbed the railing Of the prison
ers' dock. She had to be bodily
dragged into the prison van by ward
resses All the prisoners threatened
to go on a hunger strike right away
Makes impassloned Speech,
An impassioned speech in defense
of the outrages committed by militant
suffre gettes was delivered In the
court by Annie Kenney during the
session Her address served to en-
liven the proceedings and her con
Guiding words created a great i'm
preston. ..-.
EFF | have got to die to get the
vote" she said, Il will die willingly
whatever the verdict Of the jury.
Greater interest was taken in the
proceedings than in any previous stage
of the trial. The entrance OF the de-
fendants-Miss Harriet Kerr. Miss
Inez Lake, Miss Rachel Barrett, Mrs
Beatrice Sanders, Miss Kenney, Miss
Laura Lennox and Edwy Clayton,
chemical adviser to the suffragettes-
found the court crowded. Women
formed the majority of the audience,
among them being Mrs. Winston
Spencer Churchill, wife of the first
lord of the admiralty, and Miss Violet
Asquith, daughter Of the premier.
Justifies Violence.
Miss Kenney in her speech assert
ed that the action OF the Ulster union
lists and the speeches of cabinet min
listers, who she said had asserted that
unenfranchised were justified in re-
belling in order to get their griev-
ances remedied, furnished ample war
rant for the course pursued by the
militant suffragettes.
IF further justification were neces-
sary," she said, 'the trickery and
treachery of cabinet ministers. who
have hunted and bounded the women
from pillar to post, supplied 1t. The
present government has timer In a
factory. Joined the suffrage move
ment for that reason more than any
other. 1t has treated the aspirations
OF the women more abominably than
any British government since 1867.
Calls Self Rebel.
AS for myself, belong to the
working class. AT the age Of ten ]
was a half-timer in a factory. | join
ed the suffrage movement because Of
the terribly cruel conditions under
which women worked in the British
isles. | am a rebel and a rebel !
shall remain until women receive the
vote IT, like Miss Dawson, it should
be necessary for me- to sacrifice my
life. then / shall gladly die"
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, president
OF the union. who was released from
Holloway jail for the second time
since being sentenced to three years
for conspiracy. because of illness
brought on by a hunger strike, was
reported to be in serious CON
ditiOn So i'll is Mrs. Pankhurst
said to be from self starvation that
defendants in the Old Bailey case pre-
dicted that she would be the second
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