RELEASED SUFFRAGETTE. - ABUSE OF LIBERTY. LONDON, July 13. - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 15 Jul 1913 (original) (raw)

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Tue 15 Jul 1913 - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)
Page 7 - RELEASED SUFFRAGETTE.

Kitty Marion, the actress who, with Clara

Giveen, was sentenced on July 3 for having

burnt down the grand-stand and racing

stables at Hurst Park, has just been released

as the result of a hunger-strike. She

signalised her release by a little militant

campaign, and has now been fined 40/, with

damages at 50/, or 21 days, for breaking a

window in the Home Office.

The wife of Captain Humphrey Mackworth,

eldest son of Sir Arthur Mackworth,

has been fined £10, with £10 costs, for

having posted explosives and set fire to a

letter-box at Newport (Monmouthshire).

Our London correspondent, writing on

June 13, stated:— The week's more

serious outrage is the burning of

stands and other erections at Hurst

Park racecourse early on Monday

morning, when £12,000 damage was done.

Suffragette literature was found. On Tuesday

two women, Kitty Marion, actress,

and Clara Giveen, of independent means,

were charged at Richmond with loitering

with intent to commit a felony. A policeman

had followed them about various

streets at Kew at a quarter past 2 on

Monday morning, questioned them, and

seen them eventually enter the house of a

Dr. Casey with a latchkey. Marion was a

known militant. Later in the day two

inspectors entered the house, found the

women lying down fully dressed, and

arrested them. Mrs. Casey said oae of them

had told her on Saturday they were going

to a party on Sunday night, and would go

to her house if they missed the last train;

whereupon she give them the latchkey.

They were admitted to bail in £1,000 each,

and two sureties of £500 each. That evening

they were arrested and charged

with the arson at Hurst Park. A tramcar

man identifies Marion as having been

with another woman near the racecourse

shortly before the fire, and there is other

identification evidence. A piece of carpet,

used to get over the barbed wire fence at

Hurst Park, is identified by Marion's landlady

as her property. Oil, resin, suffragette

literature, and such inflammatory matter,

were found in both women's rooms.