Show BURN S THE BALLOTS ENGLISH suffragettes FAIL IN spectacular ENDEAVOR TO TC invalidate ELECTION woman throws acid on an ballot box but only succeeds in burning election officers and causing her own arrest london mrs C r epli pl i a suffragette furnished an early morning thrill at the Dermond sey by election on thursday when she smashed a bottle containing corrosive acid on a ballot box her ifer intention evidently was to destroy the ballots in the box as a protest against the exclusion of 0 womb i from the right at 0 franchise what she accomplished was the painful burning of some of the election ofal cers and the assurance of her own ar rest slipping into one of the booths where perhaps 1000 ballots had been deposited mrs chapin drew from ln der bar a bottle in which ink had bad been mixed with corrosive corr ive acid and before she could be stopped hurled the bottle uron the box it broke into many lleces and the acid splashed upon the election officers A number of these were so severely injured as to require medical atten flon about the same time a similar out rage was attempted at another booth by a girl who wore tho the suffragette col ors ore in the later instance little dam age was done beyond the burning of at the finger tips of the election officials who rm ovod the tle bits of broken glasa later in an interview miss christ abel while deploring the wounding of the officials asserted with much emphasis it la Is tho the government that Is 15 re II 11 Is the government that drives women to these acts |