New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-04
Suffragettcs Give Up Being,
Respecters of Persons and J
Begin to Fire Occupied =
Houses-Great Coup !
Expected To. day.
CHAMPION IN HOLLOWAY,
Demonstration in Court as Leader Is
Sent TO Prison for Three Years
Prisoner S Speech to Jury
ProCureB Minimum
Sentence.
LEv c,hle 70 Tho Trihune /

BY Cehle to Tho Tribune
London, April 1.-The militant suf-
fragctteS have lost no time in beginning!
a crusade of protest against the SEN
tcncc of three years penal scrvitude
passed on Mrs. Pankhurst yesterday
for melting persons TO commit damage.
Shortly before the Manchester Art
Gallery closed last evening suffraSette3
attacked the glass covers of thirteen
pictures, which they smashed with
hammers decorated with the purple.
white and green colors e the Women,
Social and "olitical Union. Two pict-
urcs and Lcightons "Andromache'
were damaged. Three women. Mrs.
Forester, Miss Mancsta and Miss
Annie Briggs, were arrested
Annie Kenney. at Essex Hall. Lon
don last evening appealed to those who
were indignant at the long sentence
passed on Mrs. Pankhurst to come for
ward during the next forty eight hours
and show their indignation by some
definite deed.
Worse Yet TO Come,
Mrs. Johns, at one time n fellow prls-
oner Of Mrs. Pankhurst, propheSled ar
the Womens Social and Political Union
meeting at Glasgow that the militancy
OF the past would be the merest pin
pricks 10 what would happen almost aS
once all over the country. She de-
scribcd it as n coming reign Of terror,
and said it was left for those OF them
who were outside TO go on with mill
tant tactics. Other speeches of highly
inhammatory character followed.
1t is understood that the Glasgow
police are taking every precaUtion Ia
prevent suffragette misdeeds. Special
messages are being telephoned around
from Scotland Yard, and telegrams sent
warning owners and occupiers Of prop
erty of possible developments. II may
be regarded as certain that these
women will do things never hitherto
dreamed of. one Of them candidly ad-
mitted that in ingenuity and in savage
ness the programme before them viii
be such as will more than staggcr hu-
manity.
Human life itself" she declared is
now in peril, as we have resolved TO re-.
spcct it no longer, and trouble Of all
sorts must be expected
This statement did not cause sur.
prise. for the women, who at first only
set fire TO unoccupied houses, have
made attempts in the last few days
against occupied residences.
Leader Found Guilty.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst was
found guilty yesterday and cen
fenced 10 three years penal sery-
itude on the charge Of melting per
sons to commit damage. At the close
of her defence, in the course Of which
she contended that the destruction or
the house on Walton Heath was not
wicked and malicious" as charged IN
the Indictment. she hurled at the jury
the following passionate defiance:
Il consider myself a prisoner OF war
and under no obligation 20 accept the
sentence YOU will impose upon me.
From the moment you find me guilty ]
shall refuse food and shall fight my
way out of prison even IL / come out
dead. My intention is not the result OF
hysterical emotion, for l have expert
enccd the tortures of hunger striking
and know what il is 10 fight. fight, light.
against feeding until strapped down and
even then TO fight with tongue ana
teeth until exhaustion comes. but the
government must be made 10 under
stand that Imprisonment or even death
cannot stop the warfare of women fully
10 make conditions intol-
cradle to all until the government ends
bv giving votes 10 women.
Il put il 10 you, my lord. and TO YOU.
gentlemen of the jury, as private citi'
zens. that you are probably sending me
to my death"
Great Nervous Strain.
Mrs. Pankhurst seems 10 DC iapotihS
under such nervous strain that 1t IL
probable that a few days Of forciole
feeding will exhaust her strength. Her
last message TO the suffrasists was that
she expected to fight her way out In
time TO be at the big Albert Hall meet
ing on April 10.
She was taken direct TO Holloway
Jail.
The Old Bailey tribunal was crowded
with women sympathizers. VINO were :
almost motionless during their leader ,
speech. At the close there was a STIR
of relaxation. but no disorder until the
ndrc pronounced the minimum SEN
tence of three years Imprisonment.
Pandcmonium then followed Inc
nilitants cried shame Freeoom: