Suffragette Julia Jameson

Suffragette, Julia Jameson.
In June 1914 Julia Jameson was accused of conspiracy to commit malicious damage to property in Maida Vale. She was arrested along with Grace Roe, Nellie Hall and Helen Arnes. At their trial the women complained that they had been tortured as well as drugged whilst in prison awaiting trial. The claims were not investigated. The women delayed and disrupted court proceedings by shouting out to members of the gallery as well as to each other. Hall and Roe were found guilty and sentenced to 3 months imprisonment each after stones and flints were found in suitcases at their homes. Jameson and Arnes were acquitted due to lack of evidence.
This image is likely to be a surveillance image taken by an undercover photographer working for the Home Office. Such images of known militants likely to cause damage to property were distributed by the authorities to public institutions such as museums.