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Show HORSE WHIP I DR. PEARSON I Group of Militant Suf- I fragettes Attack the Medical Officer of the j Holloway Jail as He I Was Entering the Pri-son Pri-son Gates Protest 1 Against Treatment of Miss Richardson H London. Aug. 9 A group of mill ! ! tant suffragettes armed with horse I j whips today assaulted Dr. Allan I Campbell Pearson, the medical officer of Holloway Jail, as he was entering the prison gates. Tli" attack was mado as a protest against the treatment In the jail of j Miss May Richardson, under a sentence sen-tence of three months for breaking windows Miss Richardson alleged that the doctor had threatened to deal with the suffragettes in such a j way as to make them "physical and mental wrecks, after which they v ould be confined in lunatic asylums |