The day book. [volume], March 12, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 4

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WOMAN DRAWS SIX MONTHS
FOR SLASHING ART WORK
London, March 12. Declaring in
wild shrieks that she was glad to be
a martyr as a protest against the
"slow murder" of" lVIrs. Eninieline
Pankhurst, Mary Richardson, de
stroyer of Velasquez's "Rokeby
Venus" in the National gallery today
went hunger-striking to prison for six
months at hard labor.
The woman apparently gloried in
her crime, which, the Crown scath
ingly characterized as "senseless,,
wicked and dastardly," and. exulted
loudly as she accompanied a court
officer to Holloway to jail; where Mrs.
Pankhurst is now on. hunger strike
after her seventh arrest under the
"cat-and-mouse" act.
Magistrate Wallace, presiding in
the London sessions court, where the
Richardson woman was tried, regret-
ted that six months in jail was the
maximum penalty he could impose.
The British law provides that punish
ment for "damaging art works."
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SHE CAN'T SEE WHERE HUBBY
HAS DIVORCE GROUNDS
New York, Mrch 12. Mrs. Char
lotte Davis Porter-Briggs doesn't see
where her husband, Victor Harvey
Briggs, has any ground for fighting
her suit for separation simply be
cause she posed as "Innocence" in
the costume of the Rokeby Venus.
Being an artist's model, Mrs, Briggs
today declared her husband knew she
had posed "in the altogether" before
she appeared as undraped "Inno
cence." .
"I have been a model since I won
a $1,000 beauty prizeih Cleveland,"
said Mrs. Briggs.-
Briggs is' lighting the separation
suit, not only because of the posing
allegation, but declares Mrs. Briggs
was the wife of Harold Porter when
she married him. Mrs. Briggs declares
she was divorced from Porter
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CZEM ERO WSKA QIRL TO LEAVE
, Stella Czemerowska, the Polish.
factory girl,- who" was latijudged not
guilty of the murder of her sweet
heart, is going to leave Chicago for
ever. "I want to. get away from Chicago
with air the memories it contains for
me," she said, "but even after what
has happened i will miss Chicago,
where everyone was so good to me in
my hour of trouble."
She will make her home with an
aunt in Pittsburgh.-
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SAYS THAT WORKERS' PARTY IS
MISSING IN UNITED STATES
Joseph Wedgwood, Single Tax
leader of the British Parliament, has
only been in our country a few days,
but evidently he has kept his eyes
open.
He made a speech last night at he
memorial to Joseph Fels, the million
, aire single tax man, held in the Y. M.
C. A. And he said that what he miss
ed mostly in our United States was a
party that represented the working
people the great 95 per cent.
ing people?" he asked. "They seem
to have the wool pulled over their
eyes."
"Civilization today is based on
wagewslavery," Wedgewood said later,
"but there will come a day when an
other John Brown will appear on the
battleground. And. the new leader will
make'such a fight against the system
which dominates that it will awaken
the world as John Brown, awakened
America with his protest against the
slavery of negroes."
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MAY BE FEDERAL JUDGF
Attorney Edgar Lee Masters,, form
er law partner of Clarence Sv Darrow
and counsel for the waitresses in
their battle with the restaurant
bosses, my be chosen as the federal
judge to fill Grosscup vacancy.
" This information leaked' out as the'
result of the visit .of a, prominent Chi
cago politician to Washington.
Sec'y of State Bryan is said to bo,
boosting Masters to Wilson.
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