In the early hours of last Saturday morning the night
watchman at Mr. Harcourt's house at Nunehara discovered two women in the park, who apparently contemplated arson. They had methylated spirit, petroleum, turpentine, and fire. lighters. One woman escaped, but the other, Helen Craggs, is in custody. They are believed to be militant suffragists. Recently an attempt was made to set fire to Mr. Hobbouse's house, and the front door was partly burned. Another outrage in the suffrage cause was committed at Mr. Lloyd George's meeting at Kennington Theatre last Saturday. A man named Charles Grey grappled with Mr. Lloyd George as he came upon the platform, and dragged him to the ground. He was afterwards sentenced to two months' hard labour. On Thursday a hatchet was thrown at Mr. Asquith in Dublin as he was driving with Mr. Redmond, but no one was hurt. At the end of the performance at the Theatre Royal on the same evening an attempt was made to burn the theatre by setting fire to a curtain soaked in petroleum. If one did not already appreciate the extent of the " suffragettes' " madness one might almost think that such outrages were the work of agents-provocateurs working for the anti-suffragists; for every single outrage makes more certain the defeat of the proposed suffragist amendments to the Franchise BilL
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