Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-26 | Page 4 | Militants Are Given Sentence

oo MILITANTS ARE GIVENSENTENCE Six Months Imprisonment Is Ordered for Each of Picture Pic-ture Destroyers. London, May 26. Suffragettes who slashed pictures in the National Gallery Gal-lery and Royal academy, together with a number of window smasher?, were convicted and sentenced today. Six months' Imprisonment was ordered order-ed for each of the picture destroyers, while the window smashers in all cases were condemned to terms of four months. Several women refused to give their names and were identified by num bers. One frail girl collapsed in court as the result of a hunger strike and it was necessary to give her a re storative. She was carried into court by women wardens. Harangues the Jury. Freda Graham, the suffragette, who slashed several valuable paintings In the National Gallery on May 22. har-anj?upd har-anj?upd the Jury, declaring she had attacked at-tacked the pictures "as a protest against King George's illegal and un: constitutional action In refusing to receive a legal deputation of women." wom-en." She added: "What are five pictures compared with 80,000 pictures by the greatest artist of all, which are being shame fully defaced, damaged and degraded by men each night?" Mary Spencer, who damaged a picture pic-ture at the Royal Academy on May 22, told the judge the only way left for women to express their views was to damage property, as they respected human life too much to destroy It Extraordinary precautions have been taken at the Epsom race course to prevent any repetition of last year tragic interference with the running of the derby, when Emily Wilding Davison Da-vison met her death by Jumping on the course. A force of 2000 police will be on duty during the race meeting. meet-ing. The arrangements to prevent King George and Queen Mary being subjected to annoyance by suffragettes suffra-gettes have been made as perfect a? possible.