THE COLD CUP OUTRAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 21 June 1913, Page 5

THE COLD CUP OUTRAGE.

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[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.]

(Received 10.40 a.m.) London, June 20. Rarely has 4he race for the Ascot Gold Cup been run before a larger or more intensely interested throng. Suddenly a gasp, a shout, traversed the crowd. Tracery had fallen; something was wrong; there was some sort of meleej the horses behind swung wide, and entered the straight spread out across the coxrrse; that was the first glimpse of the outrage. It was apparent that the connection with the suffragettes incensed the crowd, and but for the shocking injuries sustained by the intruder he would have fared badly. He was identified later as James Hewitt,.a man of independent means, of Ledbury, and a great-grand-son of the second Viscount Lifford. Hewitt was a great lover of animals and birds, and a fellow of the Zoological Society. He had travelled widely, and was described as a generous benefactor to the deserving poor. He attended Miss Davison’s funeral, but did not belong to the suffragette organisation. His diary showed his intention to stop the Ascot Gold Cup. He hoped he would not injure any of the jockeys. One entry mentions giving his body to fight against society convention. Another document indicated his intention to commit suicide. He had in his possession £2OO.

Eye witnesses state that he issued from a hedge deliberately, even stopping to hang a satchel on the palings.