Mary Leigh and Edith New released from prison

Released Suffragette prisoners Mary Leigh and Edith New arriving at Queen's Hall for a 'welcome home' breakfast reception, 22nd August 1908. On 30th June 1908, enraged by witnessing 'violence and indeceny' inficted on Suffragettes by the police in Parliament Square, Mary Leigh and Edith New went to 10 Downing Street and threw stones at a window, this being the first act of physical militancy carried out by Suffragettes. On their release from prison after serving two months Mary and Edith were greeted by a delegation of suffragettes that included Christabel Pankhurst. Presented with purple, white and green bouquets they were taken to a waiting carriage that transported them to a breakfast reception at Queen's Hall. Here they can be seen in the carriage holding aloft loaves of bread smuggled out of the prison as souvenirs.