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Show TITLED WOMEN IN PRISON. Suffragettes Decline 'to Pay Fines, Pre-ferrlng Pre-ferrlng to Serve Sentence. London. Bofuslng to givo security for tholr good behavior, tho woman suffragists who woro arrested while nttomptlng to reach Premier Asqulth to present him n petition in tho Inter-e8ts Inter-e8ts 'or tho causo, woro on Thursday sontenced to Imprisonment. Most cr tho terms woro for ono month. An exception was mado In tho cose of Mrs. Pothlck Lawrence, who, having a previous conviction against her, wna sentenced to two months' Imprisonment Imprison-ment MIsb Lawless was among thoso given ono month.- Lady Constance Lytton, slstor or Lory Lytton, and daughter or tho former vlcoroy of India, In-dia, warned or friends that If they secured hor release by providing security se-curity sho would ropent her offense. Sentences woro Imposed upon about thirty women, mnny of them having a I high social standing. |