The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-24

u was announced to-day that hereafter
Tn British Museum will be closed to
wore1 without tickets unless they are
youchei for by some persons known to the
officials who will guarantee to be re-
spon. Die Tor their behavior.
-Four women who smashed windows on
Gros'enor square wero sentenced to-day
10 two months Imprisonment at hard
labor Three other women who were ar
r1ign d on Il similar charge were SEN
tened for shorter periods. All the women
announced that they would go on hun
ger strike a, once
story is told Of how the militants
proposed to invade Buckingham Palace
An unnamed society woman secured n
short lease on a large house on Grosvenor
place overlooking the palace gardens. She
undertook to make the necessary repairs"
and IN order TO do this a number of lad
ders we're brought into the grounds and
placed against the palace garden walls.
The ncshbors had their susplcions
aroused by frequent visits of women to
the place lt night and told the police.
The officials went TO work at once and
nipped plan of the militants to raid
the palace gardens by clambering over
The walls By means OF the ladders which
were already IN place.
In the raid OF the W. s. r. L. head
quarters all the woman were allowed to
escape with the exception of one
This was Grace Rae, the secretary of
the W. :. y. T., who was arrested and
taken 20 Marylebone police court, where
she was charged with conspiracy to dam
age property. she was remanded until
next Tuesday.
There is report in circulation, which
gets some credence. that the raid to-day
was insiigated by Queen Mary. who feels
deeply the insults which were hurled at
herself and the King during the interrupt
ION OF yesterdays performance AT His
MaJesly's Theatre 1t is said the Queen
urged King George to take some drastic
action and that It was on the Kings
orders that the raid was made.
The people outside the headquarters
were decidedly hostile to the women and
crowd gathered during the raid. When
the women who had been kept inside by
the police were allowed to leave the build
ing they were booted and jeered and II
required the protection of the police 10
fave them from violence. One suffragette
who arrived during the raid made an at
tack on a policeman, but ne simply forced
her out OF the way and refused to arres,
her
Two women vandals broke u glass ca Sc
IN the mummy room of the British NIu.
seum ,o-day No damage of any accoun,
was done to the exhibit
Tho women were arrested and taker
10 Bow street police court where they
gave their names as Annie Wheeler ant
Noble Hay. Tile court sentenced IN,
former To two months and tile latter tc
one months imprisonment.
Finer, Was an outb. eilS in the polio,
court to-day by Frida Graham, the mill
tant who Yesterday slashed several val
ul"lt paintings In the National Gallery
She Kept up continual TRADE durln,
t"' proceedings and It required the ser
vices Of two policemen to hold her snt
prevent her from making an attack OF
'H' "agistrate. She was committed 70
tla! ~ the assikes.
In Glasgow the mlitants tried to blow
~ 'ho ylIduct which carries half O
FiSguw's water supply from ..oc
katrine, forty miles away. The falur
OF fuse alone saved the viaduct fror
destruction Waterman while maxim
Ms rounds of the vladuct found tw
powerful bombs and a half burned fus,
Woman's handbag containing tw
fowels, a copy OF yesterdays issue of tn
eSfrd0ette and a placard to the enec
hst the proposed destruction WAS a pre-
test against the rearrest of Mrs Pank
hurst was found near by.
In Edinburgh a portrait of King Georg
'. by John Lavery, in the Royal Scottis
academy. was hacked by a sufiragett
The woman usen a Ratchet and smashe
the glass OF the picture. She made
gasn several inches long in the canva
She was arrested. but refused to give h,
name,