ASCOT GOLD GUP

Grey River Argus, 21 June 1913, Page 3

ASCOT GOLD GUP

SENSATIQNAIi INCIDENT^.'''.' ANOTHER "MARTYR" TO THE CAUSE. ;. (By Electric Telegraph— Copyright). (Per Press Association). , PALATINE .... LONDON ' J 'T'' i *.' l STEDFAST '.'""? \.--, aleppo :../.!.!!!;!!"!"!!!""'."■'. 3 There was a great crowd; inciudinff their Majesties. • -,: , j,-; Tracery, the second favorite"!-' was. leading sdx furlongs fxom home --when a youih named Hewitt, oft Trinity College, Cambridge, jumped- out ;wavmg a Suffragist flag and brandishing a revolver, crying "Pull up or I'll shoot!" The jockey, . Wh'ally, was unable to avoid the Suffragist who,attempted ; to grab Tracery's neck but the horse . caught and sent him 'flying. Tracery fell heavily and Whalleywas thrown and j ust . b ad time to :' crawl : to saf-ty under the railings before the ires t- cf the field .raced, by. • , : Prince Palatine jumped over Tracery which sirugfgfled up and finished riderless. . , "•- Hewitt was picked up with. a fractured skull from a kck from the horse Fitzrichaird, inflicting a terrible wound. He was taken to the hospital and -an operation performed immediately. - His cassis believed to be hopeless: The King anxiously inquired and sent for WhaUey from the Royal box. He was ivnhurt. " .. A Their Majesties, were cnth' usiasticWy-^ ch"->rofl on returning to Windsor. ! Whallev states that Tracery would . have won-. A MADMAN'S ACT. ■ ■ m U<cd- i.a.m_. 1 V 'ihe police are salaried that Hewitt was uibaae ano not connected with, tixe suiiiag'cttes. ■',■-.: ri.s daary shows that he had an antipathy to race*, as showing: all that was worot in numaniry. . . /./, iiewict walked into 'tne: course so collectedly that th'd onlookers did not suspecc mischief, and the horses webs aiiready cjose before Hewitt raised the ' 'Sufeagette flag. m his left hand. As 1 racery approached Hewitt dasiied forward and threw both arms in the air and stood immediately in the path. . • He was struck full in the chest by '• Tracery's head and flung wth great ■violence to the-. ©round. '7 / He made mo attempt to use the revolver, which fell or was thrown from Hewitt's hand aganst the fence. It was fully loaded, the police emptying it 1 on- the turf. / Whalley turned a somesault and his escape from grievous injury was wonderful. The spot where , Hewitt lay ' was marked with, a pool of blood, which : soaked into the heavy garass, and drained into the hard ground. ,: The loss of blood was terrible;-, '"$£