Millard County Chronicle | 1912-03-07 | Page 5 | Prefer Starvation to Work.

PREFER STARVATION TO WORK. Suffragets Sentenced to Hard Labor Decide to Defy the Prison Officials. London. Convinced that tho suffragette suffra-gette situation has reached the point whero the depredations of the women must be met with severe sentences, most of the magistrates before whom the participants In Monday night's demonstrations were arraigned, mei.d out hard labor to the offenders and served notice that this would be the regular penalty hereafter. Twenty women were sentenced to terms of one to two months and all of them decided they would rather starve In prison rather than work. , London is practically In a state of elege, so fearful are the merchants Of the suffragettes' ire. Nearly every big shop window Is boarded up and In many establishments special guards have been engaged to deal with tho militant women.