"One perpetrator of militancy was Ethel Moorhead, the daughter of an army surgeon. In 1911 she threw an egg at Winston Churchill, who was an MP for Dundee and a bitter opponent of votes for women. Later, Ethel was jailed for breaking a glass case at the Wallace monument, an act symbolising women's fight for freedom. She was jailed several times, but even behind bars Ethel ran the authorities ragged. But in 1914 she became the first woman to be force-fed in Scotland. Force-feeding had been carried out in England and doctors wrote petitions condemning the practice as barbaric. In Scotland, the judiciary was reluctant to follow, but in 1914 they capitulated. A newspaper spoke of "Scotland disgraced and dishonoured." "...Instead of passing through into the throat, the tube went into the top of my nose and injured the nerves of my right eye. They began feeding me through the mouth. One doctor used to put his finger through the extreme end of the left side of my jaw and cut me while the wardress put her finger through the right side of my jaw. Between the two my lips were nearly torn." That account from a recipient of force-feeding shows why it polarised public opinion. Perth prison became notorious for its brutal treatment of the women it held."