SUFFRAGETTE MADNESS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 578, 21 June 1913, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE MADNESS.

ANOTHER RACECOURSE SENSATION. A COLLEGE YOUTHS' DEED. Hv TeleKrnjili.-PreHs Asocial ion.-Co)ijTi(rM Received Juno 20th, at '.1.5 p.m. ! London, Friday. The Ascot. Gold Cup romiKcd:— Princo Palatine 1, Steadfast 2, Aleppo 3. There was a goat crowd, including j their Ma.ieatifO Kin*: George and Queen [Mary. Tracory, the wocond | favourite, was leading nix furlongß from home when a you 111 named Heweft, of Trinity College, OamI bridge, jumped out waving a mifTra- ! gist flag, brandiHhing a revolver, cryj ing, "Pull up, or I'll nhoot.'' The J jockey Whalley wan unable to avoid l the miffragist, who attempted < ; ° K Tracery's neck. The horeo caught him and .sent him (lying. Tracory fell heavily. Whalley had iww to crawl to safety under the railings before the rest of the field raced by. Princo Palatine jumped over Tracory, which struggled up and finished riderleas. Hewett wan picked up with a frcfured nkull, a kick from the horse Fitzgrichard inllicting a terrible wound. He wae. taken to the hospital, and an operation wan immeditoly performed, hut bin condition in boliovcd to be hopeloHn. , The King'anxiously inquired and sent for Whalley lo the Royal box. The jockey wan unhurt. Their Majesties wore onfhuuisficully choered on returning to Windsor. Whalley stated Tracory would have won.

THE OCCURRENCE [DESCRIBED. Rarely hats tlio race for the Ascot Gold Cup boon run before :>, larger and more intensely interontod throne;. Suddenly a gasp and a nhont travornod tho crowd, Tracery had fallen, and iromothing wan wrong. Some mtrl. of 11 melcc occurred. The hornet* behind swung wide and entered the ntraight across tho cour.ne. Tho firnt glimpse of tho outrage and iU? .-spparent connection with fiuffragotton ineonnod tho crowd, and but for tho shocking injuries of the intruder ho would have fared badly. He wan identified later as James Jlowett, a man of independent means, of Ledbury. ['a groat grandson of tho second Viflcount LifTovd. Hewitt wan a groat lover of animals'and birds, and wan a Follow of the Zoological Society. Ho has travelled widely, and in described an a generous benefactor to the donei-ving poor. Ho attended Minn Davidnon's funeral, but does not belong to tho suffragette organisation. Urn diary showed bin intention to utop the race for tho Gold Cup, and hoped ho would not injure any of the jockeys. One entry mentions giving bin body to fight society convention!]. Another document"'indicated his intention suicide. He had in hin poHiwiwion £2OO. An t eye-witness states Howitt issued from tho hedge deliberately, even stopping to hang hin natch''! on the palings.