Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-22
HARANGUE KING
AND DAMAGE ART
Militant Suffragettes of Eng
land Resume Their STIR
ring Outbreaks.
QUEEN ALSO A TARGET
OF VOTESEEKERS' SHAFTS
Wild Scenes Are Enacted in Court
When "Wild Women" Are
Arraigned.

LONDON. May 22.-King George and
Queen Mary were compelled to listen to
the harangue of militant suffragette
this afternoon while they were attending
matinee at His Majesty's Theater. A
woman rose in the stalls and began to
address the king.
You Russian czar!' she shrieked. The
attendants quickly rushed in and tried to
get her out, but found that she was
chained to the seat. They had to file
through a link before she could be re-
moved
While this was in progress half a
dozen women in different parts of the
theater started shouting at his majesty.
One of them jumped on the stage and
commenced speech. When she had
been thrown out others began.
Eventually all the disturbers were
elected. The police on duty outside had
a hard struggle to save them from rough
handling by the hostile crowd.
The wild women OF the Women's So
cial and Political Union. the militant suf-
fragette organization. made two separate
attacks on the national art treasures.
The turmoil of the battle in the vicinity
of Buckingham Palace. where column
ed to reach the king with petition. had
barely subsided when early this morning
a woman. armed with loaded cane ruin
ed five masterpieces in the National Gal
lery.
Almost simultaneously another woman
wrecked picture hanging in the Royal
Academy of Art. Both women were ar
rested
The perpetrator of the outrage at the
Royal Academy when brought up at the
police court gave the name of Mary
Spencer. She was committed for trial at
the sessions. Addressing the magistrate
as "bumptious old pontius plate" the
accused kept the proceedings lively with
an abusive TRADE.
A little later the MAGISTRATE before
whom were brought the fifty-seven
women arrested in connection with yes
terday's disturbance was compelled to
suspend the proceedings because the ac-
cused created such a din that nothing
could be heard
Those Pictures Damaged.
The pictures damaged at the National
Gallery were a Madonna and Child With
Infant Saints "A Portrait of Girolamo
Malatini," .'Sts. John and Christopher
and the Doge," "A Landscape With the
Death Of St Peter and "Christ's Agony
in the Garden
The painting gashed at the Royal Acad-
emy was "Primavera-" by George Clau-
sen.
The academy was filled with a fashion
able throng when woman drew butch
ers cleaver which she had concealed in
her clothing and dashed at the picture
Attendants at once seized her. and it
was only the presence of the police which
prevented her from being roughly han
died by the irate spectators.
Both women refused to give their
names. The National Gallery vandal left
trail of blood behind her from cuts
was Immediately closed and all the stu
dents turned out.
Disorder in Courtroom. ..
The scenes at Bow street police court
when the women arrested during yester-
days battle were arraigned today sur
passed in wildness all previous efforts of
the militant party. A male suffragist
who somehow had found a perch among
the rafters blew ear-piercing variations
of the 'Marseillaise on cornet and
then sounded the charge" This was
the signal for volleys of bags of flour
and other missiles to be thrown at the
magistrate, Sir John Dickinson
Three policemen were required to pre-
vent one of the prisoners from throwing
herself over the rail of the Enclosure. An
other woman removed her shoe and hurled
it at the head of the magistrate, who
caught it deftly in his extended hand
When the magistrate suspended the hear
ing and ordered the court cleared there
was free fight.
Subsequently the women were again
brought in. Most of them were bound
over to keep the peace for six months
but they unanimously refused to find
sureties.
Theophile o. Grandpre of Chicago, who
was knocked unconscious by a mounted
poicemans horse during the suffragist
raid on Buckingham Palace, told the DO
lice today that he was robbed Of $3.50 by
two men who came to his assistance
Fail to DESTROY Mansion