Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-11-14 | Page 1 | British Minister Publicly Whipped

mmwm Militant Suffragette Makes Attack At-tack 011 Winston Spencer Churchill at Depot. VIGOROUSLY USES LASH; CALLS HIM A "BRUTE" Arrested After Struggle; Declares De-clares Other Women Will Follow Same Course. BRISTOL, Eugland, Nov. IV,. Ther-csc Ther-csc Gncruottc, a smart h'-gowuod suffragette, suf-fragette, armed with a horsewhip, attacked at-tacked AViuston Spencer Churchill hore Ibis aflcrnoou, and it was only after a struggle that sho was restrained. Churchill and his wifo had arrived b3' train and were just leaving the stalioii1 when tho woman broko through the police po-lice lino on the station platform, and bringing down the lash of tho whip upon the minister's head, shouted: "Take that, you brute!" Churchill's hat broke tho forco of the blow, but tho lash curled about his face and left a red mark. Struggles With Assailant. Churchill promptly seized his assailant assail-ant and succeeded in wrenching (he whip from her hands after a sharp struggle, during which tho two barely escaped falling from the platform to the Lracks below. A moment later, aa tho police seized tho woman, she pointed scornfullv at (ho minister's dented hat, and while her face flushed with excitement, cried: That's what, you've gotten, tind vou will get moro of the same from British Brit-ish women." The suffragette was arrested and im-j prisoned.