THE ASCOT SENSATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1783, 23 June 1913, Page 5

THE ASCOT SENSATION.

CROWD INCENSED. INTRUDER NEARLY MOBBED. By Meirapli-Press Asaoclo.tlon-OopyrtgM London, June 20. Barely has the race for the Gold Cup been run before a larger and more intensely interested throng. Suddenly a gtfsp, a shout, traversed the crowd. Tracery had fallen; there was- something wrong, some sort of a nieloe. The horses behind swung wide, and then entered the straight spread out across the course. The first glimpse of the outrage and its apparent connection with the Suffragettes incensed the crowd, and but for the shocking injuries the intruder sustained he would have fared badly. He was identified afterwards as James Hewitt, of independent means, a resident of Ledbury, and a great grandson of tho second Viscount Lifford. Hewitt was a great lover of animals and birds, and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He had travelled widely, and been described as a oeneroui benefactor to the deserving poor. He attended Miss Davison's funeral, but did not belong to the Suffragette organisation. , . A diary showed that it was his intention to stop the race for the Gold Cup, but hoped not to injure any of the jockeys. One entry mentions that he was giving his body to fight against society convention. . Another document indicated his intention to commit suicide. Ho had in his possession .£2OO. Eye-witnesses.state that he issued from •the hedge deliberately, even stopping to hang a satchel on the palings.

HEWITT'S CONDITION PRECARIOUS. (Rec. June 22, 5.5 p.m.) London, Jnne 21. Hewitt is in a precarious condition. It is stated that in 1911 ho relinquished; his patrimony in favour of his younger brother. He was always regarded as an eccentric, and even worked with the labourers on his father's estate. ~ FUTURE PRECAUTIONS. (Rec. June 22, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 21. Owing to the Epsom Derby and Ascot Gold Cup incidents, it is likely that spectators in future will be kept behind the second rail of the course.