Christine Adams

Christine Adams, sometimes known by the alias, Miss de Pass, was arrested on June 8th 1914.

She was charged with riotous behaviour at the Brompton Oratory where a group of women interrupted the service by chanting about Mrs Pankhurst. The priest escorted two of the women out, but on his return, Christine was standing in front of the pulpit screaming, her hat having been ripped off by members of the congregation.

Christine was fined £5 which she refused to pay and was therefore imprisoned for one month.

​On June 17th she was released under the Cat and Mouse Act having been on hunger strike for ten days. Her condition was described in the press as critical. After a period of recuperation, she was returned to prison finally released at the end of July 1914.

Christine Adams Surveillance Photograph © Museum of London