Here the tortures of forcible feeding so overcame her reason--it was alleged--that she flung herself from an upper gallery, believing she would be smashed on the pavement below and that her death under such circumstances might call attention to the agony of forcible feeding and the reckless disregard of consequences which now inspired educated women who were resolved to obtain the enfranchisement of their sex.

But an iron wire grating eight feet below broke her fall and only cut her face and hands.

The accident or attempted suicide, however, procured the shortening of her sentence.
Vivie and she often met in the early months of 1913, and on the first day of June she confided to a few of the W.S.P.U.

her intention of making at Epsom a public protest against public indifference to the cause of the Woman's Franchise.

This protest was to be made in the most striking manner possible at the supreme moment of the Derby race on the 4th of June.