Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-19 | Page 4 | British Nobel is Attacked by Woman

BRlflSH NOBLE IS ATTACKED BY 111 Assailant, a Militant Suffragette, Suf-fragette, Will Be Examined as to Her Sanity. LONDON", JL''eb. IS. A militant, suffragette suf-fragette armed' with a whip savagely attacked and felled Barou "Wcardale while ho was wailing today with 200 other wedding guests for a train to Althorp park, Northampton. The party was going to attend the wedding of tho Hon. Sydney Peel, son of YiECottnt and Lad' Delia Spencer, daughter of Earl Spencer. The suffragette apparently mistook the elderly peer for ono of tho cabinet ministers. Lord Wcardale did not. suffer any serious injury. The woman was arrested. ar-rested. ., When the suffragette who had assaulted as-saulted Lord Wcardale was arraigned she rofuEcd to give her namo and told the police magistrate that sho did uot desire to say any tin ug Lord Wcardale said the woman was a stranger to him. As a possible cx- Clanation of tho assault, he noted that o and Karl Curzou of Kcdlcston were joint presidents of the A nti -Suffragette society. The detective who arrested the suffragette in Easton station said sho told him. "I mean I. to give hin; a good thrashing. You don't know i what harm he has done us." Tho prisoner wore tho badge of the Woman's Social and Political union, the militant suffragctto organization. Sho was remanded for further inquiry. LOrd Weardalo's assailant is Miss Mary Lindsay of London. Counsel later applied to the- police magistrate to grant bail to Miss Lindsay, Lind-say, saying she had mistaken Lord Wcardale lor Premier Asquith, whom she considered responsible for the maltreatment mal-treatment of women in prison. The attorney said an apology would be made to Lord Weardnle. The magistrate, however, refused to grant bail, saying the act was that of a lunatic, lie added that he intended to order nu inquiry into the state of the prisoner's mind.