We maintain our determination not to advertise the militant suffragists
by describing their riotous and hysterical behaviour. We must note, however, the remarks made by the Chief Police Magistrate, Sir Albert de Rutzen, at Bow Street on Thursday. Mr. Muskett, the prosecuting counsel, asked for the discharge of a Mrs. Banks, who had been arrested on Tuesday, but discharged on Wednesday, and "who seemed to have gone from the Court direct to the House of Commons in order to create a fresh disturbance." Sir Albert de Rutzen's comment was : "This practice is simply, in my opinion, an incentive to further violence." Mr. Muskett, representing the Commissioner of Police : "I have no opinion that I am entitled to express, otherwise I should do so very quickly." If, later, Mr. Churchill finds the situation utterly out of hand, it will, at any rate, not have been without due warning from the police and the Magistrates.
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