Prisoners released

Two more women liberated from Winson Green

The result of hunger-striking

Two more of the Suffragettes who were arrested for causing a disturbance on the night when Mr. Asquith addressed a meeting at the Grand Hotel in connection with the Centenary Celebrations of the Chamber of Commerce have been released from Winson Green Prison.  They are stated to be the girl Nellie Hall, of 42, Kinscote Road, Edgbaston, who was fined 40s. or twenty-one days imprisonment in the second division for breaking a window value £3 17s. 6d., at 75 Colmore Row, and Florence Ward (50), of 19, Leicester Street, Walsall, who was charged with throwing a flat iron through one of the Church Street windows of the Grand Hotel, and was fined 40s. and ordered to pay the damage, or a month's imprisonment.

When sentenced the latter prisoner stated, "Of course, I shall not pay the fine.  I shall hunger strike at once." This course the prisoners seem to have adopted, with the result that they have been liberated under the "Cat and Mouse" Act.  No demonstration took place at the prison this morning, and only a few detectives were in the vicinity at the time.  Several detectives were there, however, and the released Suffragettes were soon taken away.

A "Mail" reporter visited the offices of the Women's Social and Political Union in John Bright Street, Birmingham, This morning, and was informed that not only were the two prisoners mentioned released, but an intimation had been received to the effect that the others were to be liberated during the day.  These are Mary Hawkesley, or 367, Bensham Lane, Thornton Heath, London; Louisa Sheppard, or 19, Leicester Place, Walsall; "Eliza", and another young woman who refused at the police court to give either her name or address.  It will be recalled that Mary Gray (or Sarah Bennett) was released yesterday, and Kathleen Nicholson liberated on Saturday last.