Ellen Brookes

Ellen Brookes is recorded as being arrested on 12 February 1908.

According to newspaper reports, her first arrest was actually in March 1907 for disorderly conduct outside the Houses of Parliament. In court, Ellen claimed her behaviour was ‘that it should have been', enquiring whether 'walking quietly along the pavement was disorderly conduct?' Ellen requested that two people be called as witnesses. Permission granted the hearing was adjourned. On remand in prison, Ellen was brought back before the court the following Monday. One witness attested that Ellen had travelled south as a delegate to get into the House of Commons, but she was not 'persistent' in her attempt 'she said nothing, and did nothing.' Another stated that Ellen was not part of a disturbance to which the magistrate enquired whether she knew what one was. Ellen was found guilty and fined 20 shillings or fourteen days imprisonment which option Ellen opted for is unknown. 
 
Ellen was arrested again in February 1908 for her part in an attempt to enter the Houses of Parliament to present a petition to the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. She was sentenced to six weeks in prison. 
 
Ellen is variously reported as single or married; from Huddersfield or Honley possibly born in 1885. Nothing further has been located.  ​