A man who put his arm in front of her to protect her was mobbed, and his glasses were knocked off and smashed.” This man, according to "The Daily Telegraph", was immediately regarded by the crowd as a suffragette supporter and ‘was seized, amid cheers and groans, and his silk hat was sent flying.“ A report in "The Daily Graphic" added that "the Woman with the Butcher’s Chopper had startled a fashionable Royal Academy crowd out of its decorum.”