Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1913-04-04
MRS. PANKHURST
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
WHEN TRIAL BEGUN
Suffragette Leader Conducts
Her Own Case.
cHAIGED WITH
NETTING ARSON

~""'see WIN tHcftHd cther women
to Burn the Home OF Chancellor
Lloyd George Mrs. Pnkhurst's
Trial starts--ttas Long Been 4
Prominent Leader
LONDON April s.-~-Mrs Emmelina
Pankhurht, the auifragette leader
who was charged with melting otaer
women to burn tae home Of Chancei-
lor Lloyd George, ii'raa j, lot guilty
when her trial was began today. Mrs.
Pankhurst conducted her own ease
and snffraRettes stormed abont tha
court.
Mrs Pankhurst. together with her
two daughters. Sylvia and Christie.
bal. has long been before The pubic
as the head and forefront OF the mil.
itant suffrage movement in England.
She has inatigated and helped com.
init long series Of outrages against
English life and property and has On
several occasion served abort inli
sentences
Her present difficulty arose OUT of
her assertion that she was "respon-
sibiee for the dynamiting OF tho IN.
finished country home of Chancellor
Lloyd George on February 10, 1919
Her arrest occurred few DAYS later
on charge of treason. which car
ries, with conviction. a Jail sentence
OF from three to fourteen yeaes
After spending three days IN fall,
iuring which time she refused food
and successfully resisted all efforts
to feed her by force, she was re.
leused on bail.
Mrs, Pankhurst Is the widow OF q
Manchester physician She first be-
came Interested in the cause OF wom
an suffrage about ten years ago M
one OF the founders OF the Woman's
Social and Political Union. For seg.
eral years she acted as secretary Of
this organization.
Finding that the quiet and orderly
appeals that she and her associates
made to the English ministers made
no Impression on them. Mrs. Pank-
hurst began to advocate more az.
gresslye methods. Finally when
Prime Minister BaIfour asserted that
ill.,, cause of woman suffrage would
not engage the attention or the mem.
bera of the parliament until il ba-
came matter or practical politics.
Mrs. panlfhnrst said very we'll, We
will make 1t matter OF practical
politlcs'
She became president OF the union
and launched the militant movements
by heclling members OF parliament
with questions, for which both sha
ana her associates were foreibly
elected from the house. aggressive
ness increased from then on, and In
1910, she led a number OF raids on
Parliament. and assaults on several
Of the government ministers, inclnd-
ing Premier Asquith. and Winston
Churchill. First Lord Of the Admiral
~.
On May END, 1912, she was sem
fenced to nine months imprisonment
on tho charge of conspiracy and in
citing to malicious damage to prop
erty. Mr.. and Mrs. Pethick Law
renee were sentenced to the sams
term at the same time. But Mrs.
Pankhurst and Mrs Lawrence
were released on June "a. after a
protracted hunger strike. It was
said that Mrs. Pankhursfs health
was 30 impaired by the forcible feed
ing process that the prison physician
ordered her immediate release. FEAR
ing that she might die in prison.
Mrs Pankhnrst visited the Unit
ed States in 1911. and made a speech
at Carnegie Hall. She made many
friends on that occasid1. some OF
whom returned to England with her
to help her in her campaign.
The now world famous device
Votes for Women" il attributed z
her.