The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-05-22
Masterpieces of Great Artists In
British Galleries Are Ruined
by Suffragettes
GREAT HUBBUB IN COURT
Wild Scene Enacted When wild
Women" Are Arraigned; King
and Queen InsuIted

George and Queen Mary were at
tending a matinee in His Males
tvs theater this afternoon, a mill
tant suffragette rose and began TO
address the king:
"You Russian Czar," she
shrieked.
Attendants tried to get her out
! but found she was chained to
seat. They had to file through
link before she could be removed.
While this was in progress half
dozen women started shouting
at the king. One jumped on the
| stage and commenced speech.
When thrown out, others began.
Eventually all dsturbers were
elected. Police outside had a hard
struggle to save them from rough
handling by hostile crowds.
London, May 22.-"Wild women" Of
the Women's Social and Political un-
ion, a militant organization. today
continued their terrorizing tactics by
making two separate attacks on ma
tional art treasurers, running five
masterpieces in the national gallery
| and wrecking a picture in the royal
academy of art.
The five pictures ruined in the ma
tional gallery were destroyed by a
suffragette armed with loaded stick
-Four were old paintings by Giovanni
Bellini. Friday is students day and
| the rooms We're filed with young ar
! lists copying masterpieces. The stu
dents and attendants overpowered
the woman. About the same time a
picture in the royal academy of art
was badly damaged by another suf-
fragette. She was arrested.
a little later a magistrate, before
whom appeared fifty-seven women.
arrested i'm connection with yester-
days disturbance i'm the vicinity of
Buckingham palace, was compelled
to suspend the proceedings because
the accused women created such a
din that nothing could be heard.
Wild Scene in Court.
The scenes i'm the Bow street police
court when the women arrested yes-
terday were arraigned today, surpass-
ed i'm wildness all previous efforts OF
the militant party. Male suffrages,
perched among the rafters, blew ear
piercing variations of the "Marsen-
laise" on comets and then sounded
the Charge" This was the signal
for volleys Of bags of flour and other
missiles to be thrown at the magis-
trate, Sir John Dickinson.
Three policemen prevented one of
the prisoners from throwing herself
over the rail enclosure. Another wo-
man removed a shoe and hurled il al
The head of the magistrate who caught
it deftly in his extended hand.
When the magistrate suspended the
hearing and ordered the court cleared
Refuse to Find Sureties.
there was a 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.
Among the pictures damaged i'm tho
national gallery today was 'Christ's
Agony I'm the Garden"
The royal academy of art was filed
with a fashionable throng when a
woman drew butchers cleavor, con-
cealed i'm her clothing, and slashed at
the picture, "Primerva," by George
Clausen. Attendants seized her.
The national gallery vandal left a
trail of blood behind her from cuts
by broken glass. The gallery was
closed and the students turned out.
Theophele Grandpre of Chicago,
who was Knocked unconscious by a
polcemen's horse during yesterdays
suftragette raid at Buckingham pal
ace, told the police today that he was
robbed of $3.50 by two men who came
To his assistance
self Invited" Guest.
London, May 22.-Accompanied by
a party of friends, Miss Annie Kenny.
a leading suffragette, motored to the
palace of Archbishop Canterbury to-
day, made herself self invited guest
and afterward refused to bulge. say
ing she had made all arrangements for
staying for the night
Arson Plot is Frustrated.
Leicester, Eng. MAY 22.--An at
tempt made early today by suffrag-
cites to burn Broughton Hall a pic
turesque mansion, was frustrated by
a passing game keeper. who noticed
the smoke.
Attempt TO Destroy Church.
Edinburgh. Scotland, May 22-Suf-
fragettes last night attempted TO blow
mp a church here. A bomb exploded,
but with only slight damage.