Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-15
Conductor Makes Discovery
as Crowded Conveyance
Pulls Into the Terminal
Station.
EXPLOSIVES TURNED
OVER TO THE POLICE
Arson Squad Destroys Wn]
tenanted Residence; Me-,
Hearing Of Leaders q
Bow Street Resumed. '

London, May 14.--A business
like bomb addressed to Horny
Curtis Bennett, the police r,Aals-
trate who 10 hearing the charges
against tho sutfraoette leaders,
was delivered by 4 letter carrier sat
Bow street police court today. The
package was marked "Immsdlate"
but, dis'ikino the looks Of IL the
cautious court officer took Il out.
side and plunged Il In a pail 81
water.
When the package was opened
It was found to contain ! tin TO-
bacco box bound with wire and
filled with ounpowder, shot and
cartridge. Attached to the cap.
end Of the cartridge was nall
which, II It had struck, would
have fired the bomb and exploded
It's contents.
London. May IA. - Suffragette
bombs were found today in one Of the
passenger cars Of local train run.
ming between Kingston-on-T Thames and
London. on the Southwestern railway,
making the third outrage OF this kind
on the same line within two months.
On the arrival at the Waterloo ter.
minus of the Kingston train, which
was crowded with passengers on their
IN hIVd{ ftn< mt ki<~~A n
In one of the compartments three par
cells which aroused suspicion. On In
vestigation two Of them we're found to
contain tin canisters filled with COM
busttbles and wrapped in suffraaette
placards. No explosion occurred and
the bombs were handed over to ne
police. a.
/ A militant suffragette arson
squad" destroyed large untena nted
residence, "The Highlands" at Sand
gate-on-sea near Folkestone, on the
English channel last night. Postcards
addressed to the "Dishonorable Prime
Minister" and to the "Dishonorabls
Reginald McKenna, home secretary
were left lying about the prem ises.
There was also postcard bearing the
words: I'VE hope this is not poor
widows house"
4 Hearings Resumed.
Striking evidence Of the extensive
operations Of the militant suffragettes
and the bad effect Of the women's
cause Of the outrages committed hy.
them was given today on the resuY6p
ton of the hearing at the Bow Street
court Of the charges against the suf.
fragette leaders. They are charged
with infringement Of the malicious
damage to property act.
Those who occupied the prisoners
enclosure were Miss Harriet Rebecca
Kerr, Miss Agnes Lake, Miss Rachel
Barrett, Miss Beatrice Saunders, Miss
Annie Kenney, Miss Laura Lennox
and the chemist. Clayton. The caso
against General" Mrs. Flora Drum
mond was postponed until July owing
to her illness.
Letter carrier and postoflce employees
testified as to the damage done the
mails by chemicals and other fluids
|poured into the public letter boxes,
Business Manager Talks.
The former business manager Of the
Suffragette testified regarding the re-
sponsibility Of the various prisoners
for the different departments Of that
newspaper. He said his services were
dispensed with by the militant society
because Mrs. Emeline Pankhllrst
thought 1t better that only women
should conduct the paper.
AS to the lose Of the circulation by
the Sunragette after militant acts had
heen committed the witness aaid the
at first 10000 copies we're printed but
the sales were only $1,000.
The circulation then droppszl to
$500 but 5000 copies were circulated
in other ways.
Just before last Christmas he told
Mrs. Pankhurst that this falling Of
was due to the letter box raids but
she shrugged her shoulders and said
that that could not be possible because
when the women we're most militant
thew were most successful