Did Emily Davison Commit Suicide

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was released after five days. In September 1909 she received a sentence of two months for throwing stones and once again she was released after going on hunger strike. A few days after leaving prison, Emily Davison, along with other suffragette members, were caught throwing stones at a car taking David Lloyd George to a meeting in Newcastle. The women were found guilty and were sentenced to one month's hard labour in Prison. They went on hunger strike, but this time around the prison authorities decided to force-feed them. In an attempt to avoid force-feeding, Davison used prison furniture to barricade the door of her cell. A prison officer climbed a ladder and, after forcing the nozzle of a hosepipe through the window, filled up the cell with water. Davison was willing to die, but before the cell had been completely filled, the door was broken down .

Emily Davison was now convinced that women would never win the vote, so, on 22nd of June 1912, while in Holloway prison, she took ...

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watching from the grandstand. Eyewitnesses at the time were divided as to her motivation, with some believing that she simply intended to cross the track, thinking that the horses had passed, while others reported that she attempted to bring the King's horse down while attaching a WSPU banner to its bridle. The horse hit her with such force that she was knocked unconscious and suffered a fractured skull. She them was put into a car and taken to the on-course ambulance station and from there transferred to Epsom Cottage Hospital, where she died four days later without regaining consciousness.

A vast majority of theories on her death surround the ideas of it being either suicide or it ...

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