Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-04
Alleged Militant Suffragettes
Have Oil and Matches in
BAGS When Arrested.
SCRAWL WARN AGAINST
HURTING MRS. PANKHURST
Unsuccessful Attempt to Blow UP
Railway Station-"Human
Life Is Now in Peril"

LONDON, April 4.-Two girls suspect
ed of being militant suffrasettes about
to commit an outrage were arrested be-
fore dawn this morning. They carried
bags containing parafffn. paper saturated
with oil, candles. matches, etc. In each
of the bags was a paper bearing the
scrawl. Beware how you treat Mrs.
Pankhurst."
The girls when brought up at the police
court gave their cames as Phyllis Brady
and Millicent Dean. They had explained
TO the policeman who arrested them that
they were returning from their Easter
holidays.
Railroad Stations Guarded.
Warnings were sent out today by the
drectorates of all the railroad systems
In the United Kingdom to the effect that
militant suffragettes had threatened to
burn stations in various parts of the
country, Patrols will be stationed at all
stations and in tunnels
Some empty trains were dynamited near
Stockport. Cheshire, in the course of the
night and suffragettes are suspected OF
having committed the outrage.
a canister of explosive had been placed
under a seat i'm one of the cars with a
rosin and oil. The force of the explosion
splintered several cars.
Vain Effort to Wreck Station.
There was also an attempt during the
night to blow up Oxted station. in Surrey,
on the London, Brighton and Southeast
railway. but the damage caused by the
explosion was inconsiderable. A travel
ing basket was found in a lavatory con-
tanning an elaborately devised internal
machine, timed to go Off at am. and
explode a charge of gunpowder and sew
cral cans of gasoline. Apparently the
gunpowder exploded without igniting the
petrol. revolver was found, which ap-
parently had been dropped during hur-
ried fight.
Militants Are Aroused.
The London sentence Of three years
penal servitude imposed on Mrs. Emme-
line Pankhurst, the leader of the militant
suffragettes.' for melting her followers to
destroy property has aroused the mill
tants to fury, and they threaten strong
reprisals.
One OF the leaders, whose name is sup
pressed. gave out the following state
ment:
Human life is now in peril. for We
have resolved no longer to respect 1t. and
trouble Of all sorts must be faced"
Pankhurst's Name Cheered.
This statement did not cause surprise,
for the women, who at first only set fire
to unoccupied houses. have made at
tempts in the last few days against oc-
cupied residences. In London, Glasgow
and other places throughout the country
enthusiastic meetings were held last
night. and every mention Of Mrs. Pank-
hurst brought forth loud cheers.
While the speakers at the public meet
ings did not go so far as the anonymous
leader, they promised that the agitation
would be very actively conducted, and
appealed to the women to show their in
dignation at the sentence by some def
mite deed.
Reign Of Terror" Predicted.
Threats Of this kind made by Miss An
ME Kenney at London found an echo
at Glasgow, where Mrs. Johns, one Of the
most militant among the suffragettes, de-
clared that the militancy of the past
would be 'the merest pin pricks to what
would happen almost at once all over the
country"
She described what the women intend
ed TO do as 'the coming reign OF ter
ror.' and said that it was left for those
on the outside to go on with the militant
tactics. 1T Is always the lawbreakers
who make things go." she added
Other women declared that what they
would do would 'more than stagger hu-