Suffragette Arson Whitekirk. St. Mary's in Whitekirk, East Lothian, after the fire of 26th february 1914. Suffragette militants were suspected, and, as the church's minister wrote, 'Some women did a fiend's work here on Thursday morning'. Some time later, Janie Allen blamed forcible feeding of Ethel Moorhead in Calton Prison, for the Whitekirk attack.