On Wednesday Mrs. Pankhurst was charged at Epsom with inciting
persons unknown to blow up the house which is being built for Mr. Lloyd George at Walton Heath. Mr. Bodkin, who prosecuted, quoted various speeches in which Mrs. Pankhurst acknowledged that she bad incited others to destroy property. After the bomb explosion at Walton Heath she said : "The authorities need not look for the women who have done what they did last night. I accept the responsibility." Mrs. Pankhurst, who reserved her defence, was committed to the summer assizes in June at Guildford. On asking for bail, she was offered it on condition that she promised to abstain from inciting others in the mean- time. She refused to give the undertaking "for so long a period," and consequently was removed in custody, declaring that she would adopt the hunger strike, and that if she were tried at Guildford "it will be a dying woman they will try." On Thursday, however, she was released on bail, as it had been arranged to bring her trial on in April at the Old Bailey, and she gave the necessary undertaking for the intervening period.
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