Show BURN THE BALLOTS ENGLISH SUFFRAGETTES FAIL IN SPECTACULAR ENDEAVOR TO INVALIDATE ELECTION Woman Throws Acid on Ballot Box But Only Succeeds In Burning Election Officers and Causing Her Own Arrest London Mrs Chapin a suffragette suffra-gette furnished an early morning thrill at the Bermondsey byelection on Thursday when she smashed a bottle containing corrosive acid on a ballot box Her intention evidently was to destroy de-stroy the ballots in the box as a protest pro-test against the exclusion of women from the right of franchise What she accomplished was the painful burning of some of the election officers offi-cers and the assurance of her own arrest ar-rest Slipping into one of the booths where perhaps 1000 ballots had been deposited Mrs ChapIn drew from under un-der her cloak a bottlo In which ink had been mixed with corrosive acid and before she could be stopped hurled the bottle upon the box it broke Into many pieces and the acid splashed upon the election officers A number of these were so severely Injured as to require medical attention atten-tion About the same time a similar outrage out-rage was attempted at another booth by a girl who wore the suffragette colors col-ors In the later instance little damage dam-age was done beyond the burning of the finger tips of the election officials who removed the bits of broken glass Later in an interview Miss Christ abel Pankhurst while deploring the wounding of the officials asserted with much emphasis It is the government that Is responsible re-sponsible It Is the government that drives women to these acts |