[2] Although Craggs' mother supported suffragism and was a lead committee member in the national and Kensington Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association, she deplored activism.
Craggs used a pseudonym 'Helen Millar' (perhaps to protect her family and her teaching post) when she joined the Women's Social and Political Union activists during the Peckham election in 1908.
[2] Craggs assisted Flora Drummond with the aim of ousting Winston Churchill in the successful campaign to wipe out his majority on this and other equality themes[1] during the election in Manchester.
[1] The constable later identified Craggs, but the second woman (Norah Smyth) escaped and police found food and WSPU flag colours (white green and purple) and phone numbers of the property and the Oxford Fire Station.
[8] Craggs wore "a striking costume prominently displaying the suffragist colours" when she appeared in Bullingdon Petty Sessions court the next day and admitted her intent but would not give her name.
[1] Craggs was held in remand due to the seriousness of the crime (as 8 people were in the house) and sentenced at the Assizes court in Oxford,[1] bailed at £1000,[2] half was provided by Ethel Smyth.
Craggs moved to Dublin where she trained at the Rotunda Hospital as a midwife, married a London East End[2] General practitioner, Duncan Alexander McCrombie,[9][non-primary source needed] from Aberdeen.