... A mouse about the house Tm-: cat and mouse act is all predation defined, and has always had an interested audience of men, which isn’t surprising because catching mice was what cats were domesticated for. But man’s attitude to mice is ...

... without horror at the savage treatment meted out to the Suffragettes, in particular as thrd' forcible feeding and the Cat and Mouse Act. or without admiration for the courage and single-minded purpose of so large a body of women. Loyal followers Dame C ...

... Hunger striking in prison was begun in the same year. The ugliness of forcible feeding, and of the provisions of the “Cat and Mouse” Act which chased the victims back to prison after they had recovered to some extent from prison treatment, does not make ...

... bombings and women tying themselves to railings; the authorities fought back cruelly with force-feeding and the notorious “Cat and Mouse Act”, which allowed convicted women to be re-arrested, even after they had been released from prison. And in 1913, Emily ...

... *_Mrs .Pankhurst received a rap:}urous welconwméwm she visited Glasgow again ollowing spring. under the notorious. ‘“‘Cat and ‘Mouse” Act, which freed ‘hung‘tr strikers” for the time 'being but ‘made. them: liable for.re-arrest. once they had‘recoveredftbe‘;_r’ ...

... forcible feeding, the, out;:yg{;fidmg ltihe Hom;al Secretary, Reginald McKenna, who engtt'::iy something called the “Cat and ‘Mouse act” by which hunger strikers were released from prison, but then rearrested after, recovery. McKenna was denounced for ...

... un& mouse everybody’s pal mwt&&emm.mydou't care about the weasel having to go without its dinner. The cat and mouse bit found its way into the Irish troubles when an Act of Parliament was aptly and colourfully referred to as the Cat and ...

... than Mac Lean could organise if alive. Dr Devon decided that the best option would be to release Mac Lean under the *“Cat and Mouse Act”, a 1913 law which allowed the release of prisoners on mental health grounds. Hunger-strikers were such candidates, to ...

... it astonishes her. “If you refuse bail and Lord Vivian is not rolnx to give evidence for six weeks, {s there tc be a cat-and-mouse act to be done with this poor woman? Is she to be brought from Holloway, Monday after Monday, languishing in prison?” The ...

... wires?.- ;. s i el : How_many . Scots know how many Scotswomen were imprisoned and force-fed and released under - the . Cat-and-Mouse-Act only to be re-arrested? + 1 used to-wait for them outside Duke :Streét Prison, »'sa{s Ceveilia Russell. We would ...