The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-23
MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES
RESUME THEIR OUTBREAKS
King George aud Queen Mnry Compelled
to Listen to Iinrnnsuc While
at Matinee.
FIVE MAsTERPIECEs RUINED
wild Scenes Enacted I'm Police Court
When "Nild Women" Are Arrnigncd
for Trial.

London. May 22.--King George and
Queen Mary were compelled to listen
to the harnngue of militant SUI
fraEctte this afternoon while they vera
attending a matinee at His aIajesty's
Theatre. a woman rose in the stalls
anu began to address the King.
You Russian Car" she shrioked
The attendants quickly rushed In and
tried TO get her out. but found that she
was chained to. the seat. They had to
lilo through Il link before she could be
removed.
While this was In progress half
dozen women in different parts of the
theatre started shouting at His Maj
csty. One of them jumped on the stage
ann commenced speech. When sho
had been thrown out others began.
Eventually all tho disturbers were
elected. The police on duty outside
, had II hard struggle TO save them from
rough handling by the hostile crowd.
The wild women" of the WOmcn's
Social and Political Union. the militant
sufragctte organization. made two sep
arato attacks on the national art treas
urcs.
WOMAN WITH LOADED CANE
RUINS FINE MASTI:RPIECES
The turmoil of the battle in the vicin-
ity of buckingham Palace, where 4
column of determined women yestcr-
day attempted TO reach the King with
a petition, had barely subsidized when
early this morning woman. armed
with u loaded cane. ruined five master
pieces In the National Gallery.
Almost simultaneously another wo
man wrecked a picture hanging in the
Royal Academy of Art. Both women
were arrested.
81,
! Royal Academy, when brought up at
the Police Court. gave tho name OF
Mary Spencer. She WAS committed for
trial nj the sessions. Addressing the
magistrate as "A "bumptious old Pom
thus PLATE" the accused kept the pro
ccedings lively with an abusive TRADE.
= little later the magistrate. before
whom were brought the iifty-seven
women arrested in connection with
yesterdays disturbance, was compelled
TO suspend the proceedings because the
accused created such a din that nothing
could be heard.
The pictures damaged at tho National
! Gallery were !. Madonna and Child
With Infant Saints" ~ Portrait OF
Girolamo Malatin," ste. John and
Christopher and the Dogc.' n Land
scapc With the Death OF ST. Peter and
"Christs Agony III the Garden"
The painting gashed ut the xoyal
Academy was ''Primavera," by George
CiauHen.
, DRAWS BUTCHER CLEANER
AND DtSHES AT PICTURE.
The academy was filled with u fash
! ionable throng when woman drew
n butchers cleavcr, which she had con-
ccalcd In her clothing. and dashed at
the picture Attendants 1T once seized
her, and 1t was only the presence OF
the police which prevented her from
! being roughly handled by the iratc
| spectators
Both women refused to givo their
names. The National Gallery vandai
lett a trail of blood behind her from
cuts from broken glass. The National
Gallery was Immediately closed and all
! the students turned out.
The scenes at Bow Street Police
| Court when the women arrested dur
| ing yesterdays battle were arraigncd
to-day surpassed In wildncss all pre-
vious efforts of the militant party. \
male sufragist who somehow had
found a perch among the rafiers blew
ear piercing variations Of the Mar
seillaisc" on cornet and then sounded
the charge" This was the signal
for vollcys OF bags OF -four and other
missiles to be thrown at the inagis-
tratc, Sir John Dickinson.
PRISONER HUHLS SHOE
At MAGISTRATES HEAD
Three policemen were required to
prevent one OF the prisoners from
throwing herself over the rail of the
Enclosure. Another woman removed
! her shoe and hurled It at the head of
the magistrate, who caught it deity
! in his extended hand. When the mag
istrate suspended the hearing and or
dered the court cleared there was 4
| free fight
! subsequently the women were again
| brought in. Most Of them were bound
| over to keep the peace for six months,
! Surctics.
/ Theophiie o. Grandpre. OF Chicago.
! who was knocked unconscious by a
! mounted policeman's horse during the
! suffragist raid on buckingham Palace,
! told the police to-day that he was
! robbed OF $3.50 By two men who camc