The cases of the fourteen women charged with special offences were taken on Monday, July 12. Thirteen of them were accused of stone-throwing, and after hearing the evidence the magistrate sentenced them all to fine or imprisonment, the period being one month in the case of those who had broken small windows and six weeks in the case of those who had broken plate-glass windows. (Mary Allen, Dove Willcox breaking Government windows in Whitehall)

Miss Theresa Garnett said: "I went no further than the Government have made us go, and we shall not go any further than they make us; they are responsible for all that is being done.

On Wednesday last week I was brought before the magistrate, charged first with striking wardresses.

The first charge was entirely untrue, and was found so by the magistrate, who dismissed the case. Of the second charge there was just this much truth, that I pushed the wardress out of my cell in consequence of her behaviour to me. The magistrate, however, believed her story, which was that I had struck her and injured her, and for this I was sent to prison for a month in the third condition.

Nevertheless, I only served three days of my sentence, as I adopted for the second time in three weeks, the "hunger strike". I was driven up to Holloway in the prison van with Mrs Dove-Willcox, but so terrified did the authorities seem to be of us that I was taken out of the van and securely locked away in the reception cell before Mrs Dove-Willcox was allowed to get out. I asked for the Governor, but was told that he was out, and that I could not see him. I then said that I should refuse to wear prison clothes or to conform to the regulations I was according stripped by the wardresses and taken to one of the cells.

From the onset I determined to refuse all food… When I did this three weeks ago during my previous imprisonment, I did not feel any serious pain until the fourth day, but on this occasion, I was so weak that I felt terribly hungry all the time, and on several occasions went into a faint. I also had severe headache during the whole time.

The evening of the first day that I was in person I found that the light was left burning, and as I lay on my bed this glare prevented my sleeping. Accordingly at eleven o'clock I got up to ring the bell in my cell to ask that it might be extinguished, but I was not able to reach the bell, and fell back in a faint…

The doctor came to me one day and tried to get me to take food, asking me how many votes I thought it was worth if I lost my health for the rest of my life. I said to him, "One vote is worth life itself." "Have you not had more than enough?" He said to me another day. "I have had more than enough already for my comfort," I replied, "but I am prepared to go on to the end." And the end came sooner than I feared it might: I had been faint several times during the three days, and on Saturday afternoon the doctor came and announced to me that I was to be released.

I know that we women are stronger than the Government, and that we can compel them to do us justice.

Lady Constance Lytton was the speaker at the weekly At Home in the Charing Cross Hall, Glasgow, and made a very fine speech, which she received with great applause by a large audience… Next week Miss Theresa Garnett will speak on the Hunger Strike. Open-air meetings are being held all over Glasgow this week. 

A police inspector stated that as she lashed Mr Churchill with a dog whip she shouted, "You brute, I will show you what English women can do. "Defendant said she had given Mr Churchill the punishment he deserved as representative of this country and unjust Government.

"I am proud," she declared, "of being a woman who has had the great privilege of resenting the intolerable wrong and injustice done to my sex by these Liberal politicians, who are hypocritically denouncing the House of Lords while keeping their countrywomen in political subjection."

The Magistrates bound her over, failing sureties a month's imprisonment. She refused to be bound over, expressing the hope that she would do her business better next time, and she was committed for a month.

Miss Garnett had determined to take vigorous action, and to humiliate Mr Winston Churchill on his arrival by the GWR. Through the magistrate subsequently in court said it was a hysterical act, it was a piece of cool daring such as has not often been witnessed.

Although hemmed in by detectives, who made a semi-circle round the Minister, Miss Garnett rushed right through them with her riding-switch concealed up the sleeve of her coat. Mr Churchill alone saw her coming, and stood fascinated and petrified; he raised his arm up as she approached and thus broke the force of the first blow; she, however, got in a second, and a third, saying, "Take that, in the name of the insulted women of England." He grappled with her, and a looker-on wrested the switch from her hand and gave it to Mr Churchill, who put in his pocket. He was deadly pale, either from fear or passion, but all right; it's all right." This was Bristol's welcome to a statesmanship by his dishonest conduct to the women of Great Britain. Miss Garnett was arrested on a charge of assaulting Mr Churchill on the head with a whip. 

Miss Theresa Garnett, Leeds, the Suffragette who used a whip upon Mr Winston Churchill at Bristol, was released from the Horfield Gaol this morning after serving the full term of one month's imprisonment.

Miss Garnett stated she adopted the hunger strike, and was forcibly fed.

As a protest she broke the glass over the gas box in the cell, and set fire to the stuffing of her pillow and mattress.

For this act she was placed in the punishment cell, remaining there eleven days.

Frances Theresa Garnett was born on 17th May 1888 at 33 Stanningley Road, Armley, Leeds, the daughter and third child of Joshua Garnett (1862-1945) and his wife, Frances Theresa, née Armstead (1862-1888).

Joshua Garnett, the son of Joseph Garnett a Yorkshire-born textile worker and an Irish mother, was born in Armley, Leeds, on 14th January 1862. Joshua began his working life as a stoker in a steam-powered woollen mill, but in his twenties, he found employment as an “iron planer” at the Leeds Forge Company, a metal factory that manufactured iron and steel items for the railway industry. The Leeds Forge Company, which had a factory in the Armley district of Leeds, produced locomotive axles, corrugated flues and furnaces for locomotive boilers, steel waggons, and other railway rolling stock. As an "iron & steel planer", Joshua Garnett operated a metalworking machine which cut excess material from the manufactured metal pieces.

In September 1885, in the district of Bramley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 23-year-old Joshua Garnett married Frances Theresa Armstead (born 1862, Dublin, Ireland), the daughter of Monica Troy and Francis Armstead. In the mid-1860s, the Armstead family had travelled from Ireland to Wortley, an area of Leeds, to find work in the local textile mills. Frances Armstead’s father was a woollen weaver and both her siblings worked in the textile industry. Before he marriage to Joshua Garnett, ‘Fanny’ Armstead was employed as a "worsted Knotter", and it is likely that she met her future husband in her late teens when both were employed in a woollen mill.

In the first three years of their marriage, Joshua and ‘Fanny’ Garnett produced three children. Their first child, Alfred Garnett, was born in New Wortley, West Yorkshire, on 15th January 1886. A second child was born the following year, and their third child, Frances Theresa Garnett (baptised ‘Francisca Theresia’ by a Roman Catholic priest on the day of her birth) was born at the family home in Stanningley Road, Armley, Leeds, on Thursday, 17th May 1888.

A few weeks after the birth of her daughter (Frances Theresa) Mrs Frances Garnett, became ill, complaining that she “did not feel well in her head”. Mrs Garnett started to talk in “a rambling manner” and was “very much excited”. Mrs Garnett’s doctor eventually suggested that she “should be removed to the Asylum.” Joshua Garnett, accompanied by Mrs Mary Rice (Fanny’s married sister), took his afflicted wife by a horse-driven cab to the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Stanley-cum -Wrenthorp, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Mrs Garnett arrived at the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum on Monday, 11th June 1888, at 12.15 pm. Fanny Garnett received some attention from the asylum’s medical officer, but she slipped into a coma and died at 8.50 pm that same day. She was 26 years old at the time of her death. The County Coroner’s report on Mrs Frances Garrett’s demise concluded that “the cause of death was exhaustion from puerperal mania”. (The mental illness then called “puerperal mania”, but now referred to as postpartum or postnatal psychosis, generally affects a woman soon after having a baby. Sufferers from postpartum psychosis often have a family history of mental illness and is sometimes linked to depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia).

Joshua Garnett was left widowed at 26 years of age, with three infant children. According to Joshua Garnett, at the time of his wife’s death, “she had 3 children, and all are living”. Sometime before the census taken on 5th April 1891, Joshua Garnett’s middle child had died. The 1891 Census records 29-year-old Joshua Garnett, a widower, employed as a “Mechanic - Metal Planer”, residing with his two children Alfred, aged 5, and two-year-old Frances, at the home of his parents, Mary Ann & Joseph Garnett. Joshua had given up his house at No. 33 Stanningley Road, Armley, and moved next door to number 35. Joshua’s father, Joseph Garnett, a 55-year-old “woolworker”, was the Head of the household at 35 Stanningley Road, Armley, Leeds, a house that contained his wife, Mary Ann, his widowed son, Joshua, an unmarried daughter in her twenties (Mary Garnett), his two grandchildren, (Alfred and Frances Garnett), and a teenage relative, 19-year-old John E. King.

A decade later, Joshua Garnett and his two children were still residing at the home of Joseph Garnett at 35 Stanningley Road, Armley. Joseph Garnett, the ‘Head of Household’, was now a widower (his wife, Mary Ann Garnett, had died in 1892) but, at 64 years of age, he was still working in a woollen mill. Thirty-nine-year-old Joshua Garnett was still employed as a “metal planer”. Joshua’s son, 15-year-old Alfred Garnett, was working as an “electric crane driver”. No occupation is given for his 12-year-old daughter Frances Theresa Garnett but presumably she was still at school.

When the 1911 Census was taken, Frances Theresa Garnett, now aged 22, was recorded as a “Hospital Nurse in Training” at Harley College, Tredegar House, Bow Road, East London. According to the census return, the nurses were doing their training at the London Hospital (now known as the Royal London Hospital) in Whitechapel Road.

During the First World War, Frances Theresa Garnett served as a nurse in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) and by the end of the war she had risen to the position of ‘Sister’ and is recorded as such in World War One Pension Ledgers and Index Cards for the period 1914-1923. Frances Theresa Garnett is not recorded in the 1921 Census of England and Wales so she might have been working as a nurse abroad when the census was carried out. A World War One index card notes that Frances Theresa Garnett had a home address in Honor Oak, South London.

Between 1931 and 1933, electoral registers record Frances Theresa Garnett as residing at 46 Sandringham Court, Maida Vale, London. Between 1936 and 1938, electoral registers give the home address of Frances Theresa Garnett as 7 Cornwall Gardens Court, South Kensington.

When the General Register of 1939 was compiled, Frances Theresa Garnett was living at 18 Lindum Road, Worthing, West Sussex. The 1939 Register records the personal occupation of 51-year-old Miss Garnett as a “Radiographer Hospital Nurse Secretary”. She was sharing the house in Lindum Road with two elderly ladies who are described as retired “L.C.C. School Teachers”.

Between 1930 and 1955, Frances Theresa Garnett made a number of journeys to Morocco, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Australia. For instance, on 2nd April 1931, Miss Frances Garrett, described as a 42-year-old radiographer, was on the outward passenger list for the P & O steam ship ‘Naldera’ bound for Brisbane, Australia. On 19th January 1950, Miss F. T. Garnett of 23 Upper Wimpole Street, London, W1, recorded as a 61-year-old “Nurse Secretary”, set sail for Australia on R.M.S. ‘Orontes’. Five years later, on 11th July 1955, Frances Theresa Garnett, a radiographer of 152 Makepeace Mansions, London, N6 was heading for Colombo onboard the P & O liner “Stratheden”.

Frances Theresa Garnett of 152 Makepeace Mansions, London, N6, died on 24th May 1966 at Whittington Hospital, Archway Wing, London, at the age of 78. The Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) notes that she left £120 which was administered by a town clerk and the borough treasurer.