Suffragettes drugging themselves to appear sick in prison 1914

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Sylvia Pankhurst admitted later on that Grace Roe did indeed smuggle the drug into prison: "To make matters worse, Grace Roe was caught in an attempt to get a drug smuggled into the prison to her..... Grace Roe had arranged that a letter should be conveyed to her by the solicitor’s clerk, containing a powerful emetic (apomorphine hydrochloride), which would procure her speedy release by causing her to vomit the food administered in forcible feeding. The drug was discovered, and action taken against the clerk, who was let off with a fine of £ 10 and costs, on an undertaking being given that his firm would not again act for the W.S.P.U." -Sylvia E. Pankhurst "The Suffragette Movement - An Intimate Account Of Persons And Ideals" (Kindle Locations 10733-10738)

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