I must point out to you that whatever may have been your motives, your deeds have been truly wicked because they have exposed hard-working people who had done you no wrong to the danger of being burnt, maimed or killed, or at the least to the loss of employment.

You have destroyed property of great value belonging to persons in no way concerned with the granting or withholding of the rights you claim for women.

In addition, you have for some time past been luring other people--young men and young women--to the committal of crime as your assistants or associates.

I cannot regard your case as having any political justification or standing, or as being susceptible of any mitigation by the recommendation of the jury.

The least sentence I can pass upon you is a sentence of Three years' penal servitude." Vivie took the blow without flinching and merely bowed to the judge.
There was the usual "sensation in Court." Women's voices were heard saying "Shame!" "Shame!" "Three cheers for Vivie Warren," and a slightly ironical "Three cheers for David Whatyoumay-callem Williams." The judge uttered the usual unavailing threats of prison for those who profaned the majesty of the Court; Honoria, Rossiter, Praed (in tears), Bertie Adams, looking white and ill, all the noted Suffragists who were out of prison for the time being and could obtain admittance to the Court, crowded round Vivie before the wardresses led her away from the dock, assuring her they would move Heaven and Earth, first to get the sentence mitigated, and secondly to have her removed to the First Division.
But on both points the Government proved adamant.