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Grace Roe, 23rd May 1914. Organizer and deputy-leader, being arrested at WSPU headquarters. She is being escorted from Lincoln's Inn House, charged with conspiracy, after a police raid on a flat in Maida Vale found an arsenal of suffragette window-smashing equipment. No evidence to incriminate her was found and she refused to submit to the trial. She had to be lifted into the dock and shouted throughout the proceedings. While on remand she went on hunger strike and was force-fed. Appearing at Marylebone Police Court six days later, drugged to reduce her resistance to force-feeding, she struggled to describe the torture of her force-feeding experiences. The case was adjourned because of a lack of witnesses. In 1912 she was responsible for organizing the suffragettes' presence at the North West Norfolk by-election, and the Dublin campaign on behalf of three of their members in Mountjoy Prison, charged with 'firing' the Theatre Royal. She ensured that people were made aware of the suffering of the hunger-striking women. During 1913 she organized Emily Wilding Davison's funeral procession in London while she was Annie Kenney's understudy, becoming deputy-leader in the autumn when Kenney was arrested and sent to prison.