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1912
[The Times: Search: "Wandsworth Common"].
[BNA: Buckmaster Battersea 1912]
[BNA: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1912]
[London Evening Standard: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1912]
[The Times: Search: "Wandsworth Common"].
[BNA: Buckmaster Battersea 1912]
[BNA: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1912]
[London Evening Standard: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1912]
Lord Wandsworth, who, as Baron Stern, was Liberal M P. for the Stowmarket Division, left a huge estate which has been sworn for probate as one of the gross value cf £1,555,984 19s 4d. of which the net personalty amounts to £1,488,609 12s 7d. The duties on the property will to amount to about £365,000. He bequeathed £10,000 to be used for medical research, £5,000 each to the Home for the Aged Jewish Poor and the Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth Common, £3,000 for the permanent benefit of the 4th Vol. Battalion East Surrey regiment, £1,000 each to the London Hospital and the St. George's Hospital. £500 to the Brompton Hospital for Cancer. £4,000 to his executors to pay for anything which in their opinion I owe, but which could not legally be claimed, �1 per week for life to his old butler, Francis Bilton. All his other property, which it appears will considerably exceed one million sterling, he left for orphanage to bear his name.
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[Wikipedia: Sydney Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth]
[PB: Elsie Duval smashed the window of the post office at "South Side Clapham Common". I wonder where exactly this was? Near Clapham South, or the parade at Clapham Common?]
SUFFRAGETTES
RENEWAL OF WINDOW SMASHING
MORE OUTRAGES
Attacks by Suffragettes on the windows of post offices and other buildings in London and the provinces are reported to-day.
At Bow-street, Alice Walters, described as a teacher, aged 53, address refused, was charged with maliciously breaking a plate-glass window at the Post Office in Regent-street.
Mr. Muskett, who prosecuted for the police, said that as the damage amounted to �7 10s., he was afraid the prisoner would have comitted for trial.
It was stated that shortly after ten o'clock on Thursday night the prisoner broke the window in question with a hammer which was covered with cloth. She was once seized by Mr. Edwin Marlin, a coal merchant living Crediton, Devonshire, who was visit to London. She said to Mr. Martin: - "I am not going run away. Don't be frightened. How dreadfully hard that window was break."
The Magistrate: Have you any questions to put Mr. Martin?
The Prisoner: No; I think I have given him the time of his life. I broke this window to show indignation against the Government for responding the agitation for votes few women bringing Bill to give votes all men, and insulting women by leaving them out of it altogether.
The prisoner was committed for trial, bail being allowed. the, South-Western Court, Elsie Duval, aged 20, of Wandsworth, was charged with breaking the window of a Clapham Common post office, damaging it to the extent of 12s. 6d.
It was stated that she threw two stones through the glass. Mr. Francis, the magistrate, remarked that she seemed to be only a child, and remanded her for the state of her mind to be inquired into.
In Manchester the windows of the Reform Club and of a branch post-office the Royal Exchange were smashed early to-day by missiles on which were notes stating that the damage had been done suffragettes. The culprits got clear away, and the police have no clue to their identity.
Another outrage is reported from Ludlow, where young woman named Elsie Rachel Helsby. aged about 20, who gave her address as St. Mary-street. Shrewsbury, was remanded on charge of smashing the post-office window with a hammer, on which were the words Votes for Women and a protest against forcible feeding. The prisoner was refused bail.
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WINDOWS-SMASHING
CAMPAIGN AGAINST POST OFFICES.
SIMULTANEOUS OFFENCES.
Thursday night and yesterday .morning what is apparently an organised resumption of the militant Suffragist window-smashing campaign. Outrages were reported from many centres, in all cases directed against Government buildings, post offices, and labour exchanges. The windows of these were smashed and a number of women were arrested.
Windows were broken at Regent-street and Clapham post offices. London; Manchester.Aberdeen, Edinburg, Southend, Ludlow, Hitchin and Letchworth post offices; and at the Ilkeston and Derby Labour exchanges. The Walsall Post Office windows were also broken. but there is a doubt as to whether this was the result of a Suffragist outrage or the work of thieves.
It is significant that them coincided with another attack on Thursday night on the Premier.
Below is a summary of the cases of window ssmashing:
LONDON
Before the South-Western magistrate Elsie Duval, aged 20, was charged yesterdey with breaking two panes of glass at the post office, South Side, Clapham Common, on Thursday evening. She was seen to hurl stones at the windows, breaking them. A hostile crowd assembled, and she had to be taken into the post office for protection. Mr. Francis remarked that she appeared to be only a child. and remanded her for the stale of wind to be inquired into.
At Bow-street Alice May Walters (58) was charged with breaking a plate glass window at the post office in Regent-street. doing damage the amount of �7 10s. It was stated that Waiters broke the windy!, with a hammer covered with Meth. was mowed by Kr. Edwin Ms:tn. to wham she rumarted. " I am not imiag to run away; don't be frightened. How dreadfully hard that window was to break.'. la reply to ths megastrate, who sated. " Haws Sou aay to init . to Yr. Martin waiters med. No. I tamh laws given hint the tame of his Life- I broke this window to show my indignation against the Government for rell= g to the &elation for votes for women by Bill to me witts to all of and insulting women by leasing them oat of it altogether_' Sheaam for trial, Mr. Basinott raying he woukl acoupt for her appearaim* at Lao two sureties
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AN OUTBREAK OF MILITANCY.
It seems that the indignation of the women over the treatment of their oomrades in prison is finding vent in forcible action.
According to the Press, on Thursday last two panes of glass were broken by stones at Clapham Common Post Office, and Miss Elsie Duval was charged before the magistrate with the damage, but remanded "in order that the state of her mind might, be inquired into."
The same evening damage was done to the window of the Regent Street Post Office. Miss Alice M. Walters was arrested and committed for trial, bail being allowed. At the same time in Manchester, windows were broken at the Royal Exchange Post Office and in the Reform Club by an unknown hand. At Ludlow, the Post Office window was broken by a hammer wrapped in brown paper, and Miss Elsie R. Helsby, of Shrewsbury, is now in prison.
Windows were also smashed in the Post Offices at Wells (Somerset), at Letchworth, at Derby, and at Hitchin, where a woman was arrested but shortly afterwards reeased.
At Streatham, also, Post Office windows were broken, and at Ilkeston three large windows at the Labour Ex, change were smashed with hammers.
At Southend, Miss Bertha Brewster was charged with smashing windows at the local Post Office, and was granted bail. Windows were also broken at Bournemouth and Christchurch.
The pretests were net confined to England. Windows were broken in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee. At the latter place, Miss Fraser Smith was arrested on suspicion. Her case was beard on Saturday morning, and, in the absence of any adequate proof, she was acquitted. 'ln nearly all those cases the hammers end stones used bore messages explaining that this was done as a protest against forcible feeding.
The following are some typical messages which were posted on the broken windows: "A woman's protest against the Government that tortures women";' " A protect against forcible feeding. Release our women"; " Better broken windows than broken promises. Votes for women "; "A warning to the Government. More to follow until they get votes for women."
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By courtesy of its" Pall Mall Gazette." MRS. ASQUITH (ditenseing the Lanebury incident): " I never 'eard sioh langwidge in all my life. I never was called sich names not in all my born days, I wasn't. Even Mr. Redmond, 'o doesn't call mo sich name ."
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"she did it as a protest against the forcible-feeding of her mother in prison. Mr. Francis said she was a silly little girl,
"A SILLY LITTLE GIRL"
Elsie Duval, twenty, of Park-road, Wandsworth, was at South-Western Police-court, London, on Thursday, fined 40s. and 12s.6d. damages or a month's imprisonment for breaking the window of the Clapham Comnon post office. She informed the magistrate that she did it as a protest against the forcible-feeding of her mother in prison. Mr. Francis said she was a silly little girl, and remarked that the Government would certainly not be influenced by any such action.
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"Yes, but every little helps."
WINDOW SMASHING BY SUFFRAGETTE
A Magistrate on Silly Girls and Their Conduct.
At the South-West London Police Court. Elsie Duval, aged twenty, res Wing at Parkroad, Wandsworth, woe charged, on remand, before Mr. Francis, with breaking windows the Clapham Common Post Office.
The accused was seen to throw stones the windows, breaking two. A hostile crowd gathered, and she was escorted into the building. The magistrate had remanded her for the state of her mind to be inquired into, remarking when she was last before the Court that she seemed be only a child.
Mr Francis, reading the certificate of the prison doctor, said the defendant was considered quite sane, though probably easily lef by unscrupulous and hysterical persons.
The defendant said she broke the window as a protest against the action of the Government, and for the forcible feeding of her mother in prison.
Mr Francis: Do you imagine you could, by such conduct, you, a silly girl, influence the Government, or any other Government?
Defendant: I don't know what you mean by silly girl.
Mr Francis: You are a girl, and obviously silly.
A young lady who was in court was invited into the witness-box, and asked by the magistrate if she would be responsible for the defendant's good conduct. "No," came the quick reply.
Mr Francis: Then she will ave to put up with the consequences.
The Lady: She won't mind that. We are anxious to get votes for women.
Mr Francis: I should think the more windows were broken the less likely you were to attain your object. Besides, the defendant is only a girl.
The Lady: Yes, but every little helps.
Mr. Francis fined the defendant 40s, and ordered her in addition to pay the costs, 12s 6d., or one month's imprisonment in default.
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[BNA: Newcastle Daily Chronicle - Saturday 29 June 1912 .]
[Source: Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 29 June 1912 .]
Report of the Women's Imperial Health Association from January 1913 refers to "the London Parks Caravan" that visited Wandsworth Common in the summer of the previous year, 1912. "a lecture is given which is illustrated by lantern-slides and cinematograph pictures thrown on a daylight screen which is hung on the side of the van."
WOMEN'S IMPERIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
At the annual meeting the president, Muriel Viscountess Helmsley, was present and took the chair. The association has a year of good work to report; its energies have been directed to improving the health of women and children, and new enterprises have been vigorously undertaken. Schools for Mothers have been started in Lambeth, North Kensington, and Tottenham, and a juvenile Health Crusade is enlisting children all over the kingdom as soldiers to fight the battle against disease.
At the meeting reference was made to the anti-tuberculosis play which was successfully produced at the Court Theatre in November.
The association has continued the caravan tours, which have proved successful in the past. Sussex was visited and certain places in Kent and Surrey.
The London Parks Caravan worked during the summer at Battersea Park, Clapham Common, Wandsworth Common, and Tooting Common: the London County Council gives special permission for the van to take up its stand in the parks, and then a lecture is given which is illustrated by lantern-slides and cinematograph pictures thrown on a daylight screen which is hung on the side of the van.
During the year 310 lectures have been delivered under the auspices of 'the association, many of them illustrated by lantern slides and cinematograph films.
The treasurer's report was very satisfactory.