A PREMEDITATED ACT.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13756, 23 June 1913, Page 5

A PREMEDITATED ACT.

EVIDENCE OF HEWITT'S DIARY,

A DEMENTED PHILANTHROPIST

London, Juno 20

Rarely had the race for the Gold Cup been run before a larger or more intensely interested throng than that which assembled at Ascot on Thursday.

Suddenly a gasp and a shout traversed the crowd. Tracery had fallen. Something was wrong. There was some sort of a melee. The horses behind swung wide and entered the straight spread out across the course.

The first glimpse of thja outrage and its apparent connection with the suf: fragettes incensed the crowd, and but for his shocking injuries the intruder would have fared badly.

Ho was identified later as James Hewitt, of independent means, of Led'bury, and a great-grandson of the second Viscount Clifford.

Hewitt was a great lover of animals and birds, and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He had travelled widely, and was described as a generous benefactor to the deserving poor.

Ho attended Miss Davison's funeral, but he did not belong to the suffrago organisation.

A diary showed his intention to stop the Gold Cup race, but he hoped that none of the jockeys would be injured. One entry mentions his intention of giving his body to fight against society and convention. Another document indicated his intention to commit suicide. Hewitt had in his possession £200. Witnesses state that Hewitt issued from the hedge deliberately, even stopping to hang a satchel on the pal-J