South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-05-22
Masterpieces in National GAL
lery SIaShed in Retaliation
For Arrest of PankhurStS-
Wild Scene Enacted in Bow
St. Court.

LONDON, May 22.-Militant suffra-
gets today made costly reprisal for the
| arrest of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst,
her daughter. Sylvia. and ffty-one
other suffragets in the rioting around
buckingham palace.
A young woman slipped by the
guards al the National gallery and
smashed i've priceless works of art
before she could be overpowered and
hustled OF TO a police station.
Despite the permanent guards.
which were established at the Ma
uonal gallery after the ROkeby Venus
was SlaShed, the young woman man
aged TO get into the building by posing
as sightseer. She spent some time
consulting her catalogue and the can
vases on exhibition. completely allay-
ing any suspicious which the attend
ants may have had.
After a while the woman entered
cham Der No. :, where old master
pieces of the French school are on eX-
hibitiOn. This room was poorly guard
ed and afforded the suffraget her best
chance. She drew a hatchet from be-
meath her jacket and began smashing
at the glass cases enclosing the paint
ings.
Ruins Five Pictures.
The clatter of glass aroused persons
III the MAN kdlltiNs Dul UtlOIt AHtN
reached the WOman's side she had
ruined five of the PICTURES all OF which
from the standpoint of the savant.
We're priceless.
Guards pounced upon the woman
none too gently. but were met with
blows from pair of muscular arms.
After a terrific struggle in which
other works of art were in danger of
being smashed the woman was finally
Cverpowered. She kept shouting that
she sought retribution" and all the
way TO the Vine st. police station she
continued TO scream.
Immediately after the picture
smashing incident all the visitors were
elected and the gallery was closed TO
prevent further vandalism.
IL is expected that a parliamentary
inquiry will be asked into the brutality
Of the police yesterday while dispers-
ing the mobS OF women around Buck
ingham palace and preventing the
militants from getting into the palace
quadrangle.
The five pictures which were ruined
by the suffraget in the National gal
lery. all OF which were in the cOllec-
tion Of Bellinis were:
Madonna and child. surrounded
by infants and saints.
John and Christopher.
Portrait of GirolanO Malatini.
Landscape showing the death OF
81. Peter. the Martyr.
Madonna and chilc with portray
al of Christ's agony in the garden or
Gethsemane
After considerable difficulty the
woman who was arrested at the Ma
tional gallery was identified as Mary
Spencer. a member of t1e WOmen's
Social and Political union.
Riot I'm Police Court.
The scene OF suffrage action and eX-
f,ifap1puf shifted Row DOllcp
court when the cases OF the sufragets
and their male adherents who were
arrested yesterday. were called
Just as the presiding mag!stratewas
getting ready TO commence the calling
the cases. the notes OF a bugle were
heard. Then the strident tones of the
"Marsellaise'. played with the full
force OF a pair OF stentorian lungs.
came through the open windows.
A male supporter OF the cause, with
a bugle concealed beneath his coat,
had climbed 20 the roof OF the court
house, and. at a signal from the street.
began trumpeting the song which for
a century has been the monarch of
revolutionary anthems.
Detectives were hastily dispatched
10 silence the daring bugler and The
music suddenly stopped in the middle
OF a note
Just as the first suffraget was called
20 the dock 10 answer charges OF dis
orderly conduct and resisting arrest,
some on threw a bomb" made OF a
paper bag filed with flour. To missed
the magistrates head and struck the
wall. where 10 burst sending "a cloud
OF white over the court and every one
in his vicinity. This woman was
ordered 20 deposit S25 bond 90 keep
the peace for six months.
"T viii go 10 Jail. ] viii never fur
nish any bond 20 any English court
cried the militant