The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-27
MRS. P|<KHURST IS
BACK n HOLLOWAY
MILITANT sUFFRAGETTE COULD
NOT STAND THE STRAIN AND
GETS IN BAD.
HUNGER STRIKE OVER
But WILL sTARvE HERSELF UNTIL
AGAIN RELEASED AND WILL
THEN RESUME VIOLENT
ACTIONS.

LONDON. May z6.-Mrs Emmeline
Pankiiurst, the leader OF the militant
suhraxettes. Is back in Holloway jail.
from which she was released on ticket
of-leave on April IL. because of her
enfeebled condition, resulting from a
hunger strike. She has been sentenced
to three years for melting Ia malicious
damage to property.
The suffragette leader had been re-
cuperating at the house of DIR. Ethel
Smyth, in Working.
She resolved today to attend the
weekly meeting of the Woman's Social
and Political Union, at the pavilion
music hall, and accompanied by DR..
Smyth. DIR. Flora Murray. and a nurse.
she left the house this morning. and
started for an automobile waiting be-
fore the door, Just as she reached the
car Detective Sergeant Barron stopped
her, and asked: Where are you go
ing?" Her reply was: That's my busi-
ness"
On being told that she was not per-
mitted to leave the house, Mrs. Pank-
hurst informed the detectives that she
was going to the pavilion. whereupon
Barron arrested her.
Back 20 jail.
She was arraigned In Bow street
police court on the charge OF violating
her parole. and was At once committed
to Holloway jail to serve out the bal
ance of her sentence.
A letter from Mrs. Pankhurst,
breathing defiance Of the government.
and calling on the suffragettes to keep
up the fight. was read at the meeting
In the pavilion music hall. The let
ter, among other expressions, con-
tanned the following:
No power on earth can break the
spirit of our militant women. / warn
the government that all its methods of
repression will fail ANONYMOUSLY.
Il hope to be able to attend your
meeting. but If, indeed, this letter is
read to you. 1t will mean that / have
been arrested. ! shall return to prison
more. determined than ever to prove
what have often said. that no power
can compel human being to consent
to unjust. unconstitutional govern
ment. We are soldiers engaged in a
holy war. and mean to so on until
victory is won"
Loud cheers greeted the reading of
Mrs. Pankhurst's letter, and the an
nouncement of her arrest pro 'oked
cries Of shame"
AS she was leaving Bow street on
her way to Holloway Jail. Mrs. Pank~
hurst made short speech to her
friends who had gathered around the
II shall resume my hunger strike
Immediately" shes said. land shall
keep 1t up until they release me again.
II they arrest me after that. / shall
continue the process Indefinitely un-
til die. or the government recognizes
women as citizens"
The sufrragette leader was taken to
prison in a taxicab.
This termination OF Mrs Pank-
bursts forty-four days Of freedom IL
taken to mean that Home Secretary
McKenna will use the entire legal
powers at his command against the
criminal suffragettes.
Two suffragettes attempted last
night to damage the golf links at
St. Andrews, where the international
championship series Of matches was
begun today. The women were In
tercepted by guards stationed on the
links to prevent suffragette outrages.
One Of them escaped. The other was
set at liberty after being searched.