The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-03
Militant suffrasette Found Guilty Of
melting to Malicious De-
structIon Of Prop
srty.
WILL REFUSE TO EAT FATHER OF THE GrRI
Woman Shouts That She VIII Either
Come Out Of Prison Dead
or Alive at Earliest
Moment.

limited Press Leased WIRE Service,
lBy Ed. L. Keene, London correspon-
dent of the United Press.]
LONDON, April S.-Mrs. Emmeline
! Pankhurst, militant suffragette LEAD.
! er, this afternoon was found guilty of
melting to the malicious destruction
OF property" by jury at Old Bailey,
London's famous central criminal
court
Mrs. Pankhurst was sentenced to
three years penal servitude. When
Justice Lush pronounced her sem
tence he was greeted with Kisses and
booes by the women in the courtroom
/ despite the efforts Of policemen to
keep them quiet.
I! "shame" cried one Of the mill
! tants.
The jurors In delivering their ver-
dict of guilty, unanimously begged
the magistrates to show mercy to the
convicted woman
When Mrs Pankhurst realized that
she had been sent to prison for three
years of hard labor, her face blanch-
ed. those nearest to her thought, but
4 she made no comment.
i The maximum penalty for the crime
Of which she was convicted Is four
/ teen years imprisonment.
i The jury deliberated only few
minutes and returned their verdict at
PIP sp.g m.
(. The fate of Mrs. Pankhurst went to
a jury of men after Justice Lush lad
fold the twelve that her impassioneo
plea-all the defense she submitted :
was Irrelevant When Chief Inspec-
4 tor O'Brien OF Scotland Yard, tolo
his story of the arrest of Mrs. Pank-
4 hurst in her knight Bridge fiat. Kings
4 Counsel Bodkin announced that the
crown had finished.
. Facing the jurors without emotion,
but with earnestness in every word,
Mrs. Pankhurst told them she would
. call no witnesses, and then proceeded
to tell the men why it was that she
pleaded not guilty and asked acquit-
tai. even while admitting full respon,
sibility for the Walton-Heath bomb
explosion.
No woman in England is ever
tried by jury of her peers as Is her
right" she said Trials such as this
!, today are examples Of what they are
suffering to obtain their rights.
II pleaded not guilty because am
; not wicked and not malicious, though
I accept full responsibility for the
Lloyd-George explosion"
Mrs. Pankhurst then proceeded to
catalog all the man-made" laws OF
England that she said were unjus. to
: women. They included almost every
law of Importance in the English code,
), "The divorce law alone she said
IS sufficient to justify revolution BY
: the women"
Mrs. Pankhurst concluded her adj
dress to the Jury by defying the
country's laws, saying that she would
not submit to them, no matter what
happened.
Whatever sentence may be impos-
: ed upon me, I'll not submit to it, she
shouted. IF | am convicted. imme.
diately after leave this courtroom,
1 I shall start a hunger strike. anu
come out of prison dead, or alive q,
the earliest possible moment
"In behalf of the welfare Of this
country, I ask the jury to find me not
guilty"
Justice Lush summed up the
crowns evidence and told the jury
that Mrs. Pankhurst's remarks were
beside the point At her request he
then adjourned court until 2:10 p. m
to allow Mrs. Pankhurst to consult
with her daughter, Miss Sylvia Pank
hurst.
At the appointed moment, Justice
Lush told Mrs. Pankhurs. that the
recess had expired, and the case was
given to the jury.
J The police were powerless to check
{ the demonstration of the militants
who we're at Old Bailey and as the
: women left the court. they loudly
sang March On" the Marsellles
: like battle song of the women's SO
cial and political union.
In consequence of the wild demon
] stration by the Panhhurst sympathiz.
ers Justice Lush proclaimed Loudly
that he would iaiI for contempt any.