The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-05
Believed to Be Carrying.
Out w o m e MS Cam
paign of Destruction.
ANOTHER COUNTRY
HOUSE DESTROYED
Votes for Women Advocates
Promise to Stagger Humanity
by Their Grimes in Retalia-
ton for Imprisonment of
Mrs. Pankhurst-Author-
tiles Take Precautions.

London. April z.-The sunragettes
continuing their campaign of retalla
tion against the sentence Of Mrs. EN-
incline Pankhurst. their leader. to a
term OF Imprisonment. tonight sue
ceeded In destroying another large
country house by fire
As In several previous cases of the
kind. the residence. which was sit
uated at Chorleywood, Buckingham
shire. was unoceupied, but was being
prepared for the reception of II tenant
The owners OF the building a firm OF
contractors estimate their loss at
$1,000
Cards bearing the inscription Votes
T, te';- w WoH'er.%@ Ard. -ethcr. -s,lffregette
notices. were found on the grounds
No arrests were made
The police believe that some of the
recent criminal acts attributed to the
sunragettes, principally the attempt g
to destroy railway property. were the
work of men engaged by the women
All me railway stations and tunnels
are he'ns patrolled TO prevent mis-
crranfs from damaging them
Miss Scott-Troy. the California suf
fragette. tonight forwarded 10 Secre-
tary Bryan at Washington samples of
the instruments of torture" used
| iorcioly TO feed suffragettes. including
Miss Ielie Emerson An accompany
| ing note explained that the samnles
do not contain the metallic tin which
an the women declare Is used in the
prison.
DR.. Mansell Moulin, who Mrs. Erer-
| son desired TO visit her daughter In
prison. also has written Secretary
Bryan, declaring that one OF tho great
est dangers OF forcible feeding as prac-
tlced In the prisons, is the absence OF
proper antiSeptlc DrecantIa,u
May StaSGer Humanity
Ihe sunragette campaign OF xio
renee "hich began to-day with several
comprehensive pin pricks. promises de-
Veinpments that VIII stagger humanity.
the militants declare they viii NO,
be content with burning elnptv houses
ana dynamiting railroad stations The
cam paign viii he unprecedented in
hIstoTj and they Will strike at the
very heart OF the nation"
kidnapping important persons is one
startling threat
so long as Mrs Pankburst Go g.,
prison. said one of the heads OF the
movement tonight. I'VE shall maka
reprlsals and VIII see that some one
suffers as she is suffering"
me authorities are fully aware ~
this peril. and have redoubled their
precaution. Scotland Yards bcs, watch
doSs are shadowing the members OF
the royal household the Cabinet min
listers and Judges. Priceless national
treasures also require close guarding
against their irreparable loss Women
visitors TO the British Museum and
National Gallery. as well as to the
Tower Of London, will be subjected to
the strictest scrutiny and shadowinc.
Suffrage leaders are evidently bent
upon big things. AS one said tonight:
IL must be something that Will hit
hard and bring the country to its
senses"
II is significant that men are sus
pected OF the latest outrages
Mrs. Pankhurst has carried out her
threat TO go on n hunger strike The
tast meal she took was luncheon he
tore sentence was imposed upon her
Yesterday Since she entered Holloway
jan she has conformed to all its rules
except that she refuses food Mrs
ianhhurSt viii he removed to the Wo-
mems penal establishment at Ayles-
bury. where any steps that are CON
siuered necessary to feed her will be
taken. Miss Kerr Becretary of the
Wonan's Social and Political Union.
discussing the statement of one OF the
Suffragette letters to the effect that
human life was in peril because of the
sentencing OF Mrs. Pankhurst, said
That while the union considered human
Ire sacred. I'VE cannot answer for
what may or may not be done by Wo-
men in their individual capacity"