ASCOT CUP OUTRAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 19, 23 June 1913, Page 5

ASCOT CUP OUTRAGE.

FURTHER ACCOUNTS. THE CROWD INCENSED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, June 20. Very rarely 'has the race for the Ascot Gold Cup been run before a larger and more intensely interested throng. Suddenly a gasp and a shout traversed the crowd, Tracery had fallen; something 'was wrong. In some sort of a. melee the horses behind swung wide and entered the straight spread out across the course. The first glimpse of the outrage, and its connection with the suffragettes, incensed the crowd, and but for his shocking injuries the intruder would have fared badly. He was identified later as James Hewitt, a man of independent means, who lived at Ledbury. He is the greatgrandson of the second Viscount Lift'ord. Hewitt was a great lover of animals and birds, and was a Fellow of the Geological Society, and had travelled widely, being described as a generous benefactor to the deserving poor. He had attended the late Miss Davison's funeral, but did not belong to the suffragettes' organisation. His diary showed that it was his intention to stop the Ascot Gold Cup race, and stated that he would not injure any of the jockeys. One entry mentions that he was giving his body in the cause of his fight against society conventions, and another document indicated his intention to commit suicide. . He had £2OO in his possession. s Eye-witnesses state that he issued from the hedge deliberately, without even stopping to hang his satchel on the palings. HEWITT'S PAST. ] Received 22, 5.5 p.m. London, June 21. Hewitt's condition is critical. In 1911 Hewitt relinquished, his patrimony in favor of his younger brother, and worked with the laborers on his father's estate. He was always regarded as ec : centric. '