Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-12-05 | Page 2 | Mrs. Pankhurst is Lodged in Prison

I MRS. PANKHURST IS LODGED IN PRISON EXETER. Enfclnnd. Dec i. Mrs. Em-mellne Em-mellne Pankhurst. tho militant sufrra-setto sufrra-setto leader, wat lodged today In Exeter Jail. Tho police, who arrested her on hoard the Malestlc on her arrival from New York, outwitted tho women sympathizers sym-pathizers who had been watchlnp to resist re-sist her arrost. After she and the officers offi-cers landed from a tuar at a dock on the Tnmnr river, they Btnrte off In the direction di-rection of London, but afterward changed their route and made direct for this city and reached their destination without encountering any obstruction. PLYMOUTH. Dec. Wind and sea today to-day helped the police to evade the posao of suffragettes who had planned to pre- vert tho rearrest ol Mrs. Emmcllne Pankhurst under tho provisions of the "cat and mouse act." A heavy sea was running In the har-1 har-1 hor when the steamship Majestic an- chore-! shortly after noon. Tho waves. wMlc they did not affect tho powerful pol'e tur. wcro too much for the little T.otorboat which the militant suffragettes hn'l engaged to head off the policemen. The occupants, who Included "General" Mrs. Klora Drummond and other leaders, were drenched to the akin before they reached tho liner, fl Tho Majestic, under poltco ordors, had jj anchored outslilo thn breakwater. The ea delayed the Kttle suffragette war-flip war-flip so much that it did not arrive at the side of the blK liner until the police were lending; Mrs. Pankhurst down the gang--nav. Tho mllftants shouted to her through their megaphones: "Don't land! The cats are after you!" Mrs. Pankhurst protested against her Q arrest and asked to see the warrant. It waa explained to her that no warrant waa necessary. At her request. Mrs. Child Dorr, an American suffragist, was j permitted to accompany her. LONDON". Dec 4. The Women's Social and Political union, the mlllUnt suffrago organization, issued the following an-j an-j no'incument this aflcrDoon: "Tho Women's Eoclnl and Political union views with great Indignation the government's action In arresting Mrs. Emmellne Pankhurst on her return from her triumphant tour of tho United States.