... most famous of th e militant suffragettes, and she played a prominent part in the hunger strike in the days of the Cat and Mouse Act. She was a half-timer at a cotton mill at the age of ten and when still a very young woman was one of the most effective ...

... extent of £7,000, and she subsequently distinguished herself a hunger-striker, being repeatedly liberated under the Cat and Mouse Act after undergoing forcible feeding in HoUoway Prison. She was one the prisoners into whose treatment special inquiry was ...

... -deceives no one. Castle rule has aggravated in every possible way the temper of the people. The tactics of the infamous Cat and Mouse Act have been applied ; the enslaving wiles of unconstitutional D.O.ReA. have been employed ; the slightest suspicion of ...

... as good his word had hi* oe** r ' not saved him trouble the thoroughness with which they did their work. \Vb « ! the Cat end Mouse Act was imposed aga* * .Suffragette* after conviction the public •deuce wa* revolted. .But apparently • fair and just in ...

... exercised in Ireland the executive can do with their prisoners 'what Mr. McKenna did with the sunragettes under the Cat and Mouse Act. The suffragettes were desperate and dangerous, and they were also determined on a hunger strike. Mr. McKenna permitted ...

... in Exile This is Mr. MacSwiney's aecont hunger-strike. After fast of thro days in Cork gaol in 1817 he was under the Cat and Mouse Act. Since the beginning of 1916 he been arrested seven times, and spent 27 months in gaol or a portee in England. Ilia marriage ...

... released under the Cat and Mouse Act when their lives become endangered through the hunger-strike. This, subterfuge though it be, shows that even the death of convicted prisoner is regarded as a danger to be averted. But no Cat and Mouse ...

... he was again arrested, and sentenced to six months’ hard labour, but went on hunger-strike and was released under the Cat and Mouse Act,” to be rearrested in March, 1918, to serve the unexpired portion of his sentence. Released on September 4, he was r ...

... grand stand at Hurst Park in 1913. She inchiged in • hunger strike, and was eventually released re. leased under the Cat and Mouse Act She celebrated her release by breaking a window at the Home Oboe. for which she was sent busk to Hdloway, but again released ...

... imprisonment connection with, seizure ammunition, consigned to Sixmiiecrow, at PorUdown, and who was released under the “Cat and Mouse Act” following the Mount joy Prison riot, was have surrentfcred conmlete hi* sentence re. entlr. When the police visited ...

... its veredict at the polls, and many of its representatives were promptly deported or imprisoned. The Government tried Cat and Mouse Act methods, and the prisoners hungerstruck. Is it not time the Government tried trusting Ireland, as it trusted the women ...

... that difficulty in the case of the suffragists, and evaded It by the clumsy but not utterly inhuman expedient of the Cat and Mouse Act. It cannot be any conscientious conviction of the necessity of punishing murder. To suggest that Mr. Mac Sweeney is a ...