25th June 1912
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I beg to acquaint the Serj[ean]t at Arms that at 5.45 pm 25th Isabella
Irvine (apparently a Suffragette) of 13 Victoria Road Brighton entered
St Stephens Hall and enquired for Sir Frederick Banbury M.P she was
accompanied by 2 other women, PC 191a Cooper gave her a card (attached)
which she handed back to him the other two then engaged him, Irvine
was carrying a cloak over her arm and passed behind him going up the
steps she pulled out a new hammer and smashed the right side of window
leading to Central Hall, exclaiming that it was a protest against
forcible feeding, and the imprisonment of Emily Davison, she was taken
into custody charged at Cannon Row Police Station by Mr P E Ridge
Clerk of Works with wilful damage to the value of 20/- from enquiry
she appears to have been charged previously outside, I am of opinion
that it is an isolated act and not done with the knowledge of the
Womens Social and Political Union to which body she says she belongs
to, as there were several in the Hall at the time, they although they
knew her seemed surprised at her action Mrs Despard of the Womens
Freedom League was a witness and repudiated her action.
She will appear at Bow Street 10 am 26th.
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C Scantlebury Ch[ief] Insp[ector] |
Sir David Erskine KCVO |
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