SUFFRAGETTE SUPPORTER'S MAD ACT.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14553, 21 June 1913, Page 5

SUFFRAGETTE SUPPORTER'S MAD ACT.

"P!U!LL. UP 1 OR I'LL. FIRE."

" HdTSE AND JOCKEY FALL.

ABSiAiILANT MORTALLY INJURED

(Per Press Assocdatioo.)

LONDON, June 20

The Ascot Gold Cup resulted: — Palatine 1, Steedfast 2, Aleppo 3, There was a great crowd, including Their Majesties. Tracery, the second faYWiritey was leading six furlongs from home when a youth named Hewitt), of Trinity College, Cambridge, jumped out waving, a suffragist flag and brandishing a revolver and crying "Pull up or Til shoot." The jockey on Tracery (Whalley) was unable to avoid the suffragist, jWiho ;afffi©mpted % grab Tracery's neck. The horse caught and sent him flying. Tracery fell heavily. Whalley was thrown and just had time to crawl to safety under the railings before the rest of the field raced by.

Pi-ince Palatine jumped over Tracery, wfiich struggled up and finished riderless. . ■ / ;

Hewitt was picked up with a fractured skull," the result of a kick from a horse, iP'itzrichard,-inflicting! a teiv rible wound. He was taVen to the hospital, where an operation was immediately performed, but his'case is believed to*be hopeless. 1-

The King anxiously -inquired and sent for Whalleyi who. went to,. the Rloyal box,unhurt.

Their Majesties were enthusiastically cheered on returningl tp Windsor.

Whalley states that Tracery would havio won had he riot been interfered with. ■ ' „..■'.•:.-. ■'.■'' ; -.■■.. y [A