Meanwhile another by-election was being fought in Dumfriesburgh where the Liberal majority was again reduced.
Footnotes:
[37] Daughter of the late Sir David Brand, Sheriff of Edinburgh and Chairman of the Crofters' Commission who had been knighted for his services to the Liberal party.
[38] The Scotch Fiscal is the officer who prosecutes in the case of petty criminal offences.
[39] An attempt was made to charge some of the women with unlawful wounding because a man's hand had been cut by the falling glass, but on the wound being found to be very slight, the charge was reduced to one of common assault.
CHAPTER XXII
SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER, 1909
The Arrests at Birmingham; Forcible Feeding in Winson Green Gaol. Mr. Keir Hardie's Protest; Opinions of Medical Experts; Resignation of Mr. Brailsford and Mr. Nevinson.