Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-05
TWO RACE COURSE
STANDS ARE FIRED
BY SUFFRAGETTES
$4,000 Loss at Ayr, but
Watchers Catch Fire
Fiends at KeIsO.
DYNAMITE AND TORCH ARE
EVERYWHERE IN KINGDOM
Meanwhile Mrs. Pankhurst, as
She Promised, Is Starving
Herself in Her Cell.

LONDON. April 5.-True to their
promise to avenge the sentencing of
their leader. Mrs. Pankhurst, to
prison for melting to riot. suffra-
gettes all over the United Kingdom
have gone wild and are committing
outrages worse even than the deeds
that their hysterical devotion to their
cause has led them to commit in
the past
Dynamite and the firebrand and
axe are being freely used, and the
authorities are at their wits ends
endeavoring to cope with the half
crazed fanatics.
Two militant "fire fiends" were
caught red-handed today while set
ting fire to the new grand station on
the Kelso race course, in Scotland.
Rags saturated with petroleum were
placed beneath the structure and
ignited. The Kelso course was one of
the places which the miltants had
threatened to visit, and fortunately,
a heavy guard was nearby when the
women crept up to the grandstand.
The torch had just been applied to
the oil-soaked rags when the watch
ers jumped from their hiding place.
Part of the guard hastened to eX-
tinguish the flames. while others de-
voted their efforts to capturing the
pyromaniacs. The two viragos put
up hot battle. They were unarmed,
but fought with frenzied strength,
and were not overpowered for many
minutes.
The suffragettes likewise visited
the Ayr race course, also in Scot
land, but with more success, to their
way of thinking, than they met at
kelso. The grandstand at Ayr was
unguarded and the women fired their
pile of petroleum m-soaked rags and
escaped. All but the steel supports
and frame work of the structure was
destroyed, and the racing authorities
put their loss at more than $15, 900
As was usual in similar outrages
which preceded today's, many suf-
fragette placards and bundle of
suffrage literature was found in the
vicinity.
During the night scores of what
the authorities, mindful of the mill
tants' actions of the past, are wont
to look upon as minor outrages, took
place. These included window break
ing. cutting down of telephone and
telegraph wires, destruction of mail
boxes and chopping down of trees.
The bomb and arson campaign
which seems to have been begun in
earnest, is causing wild alarm in the
provinces, especially at historic places
like Chatsworth and Benheim, where
special patrols of police and game
keepers are ON guard day and night.
And while her followers are doing
what they regard as avenglng her,
Mrs. Pankhurst is remaining true to
her promise to starve herself while in
jail. The last meal she ate was
luncheon before sentence was imposed
on her Thursday. Since she has been
lodged in Holloway Jail, except that
she has gone on n hunger strike, she
is conforming to the rules of the au-
thorities in a way that is not ap-
preached even by the model" pris-
oners.
No attempt to feed the convicted
militant forcibly has been made as
yet because she has not evidenced
any i'll effects from her abstinence.
She will be removed to the women's
penal establishment at Aylesbury
soon, however, and here steps will be
taken to force her to receive food if
they are thought necessary.