INTRUDER AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12259, 9 June 1914, Page 5

INTRUDER AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

ENGINEER'S STRANGE FREAK. [By Electric Teleoraph—Copyright.] Per Press Association. Received June 8, at 9.5 p.m. London', June 8. The intruder .it, Buckingham Palace is named Harry Pike. He is an eßgineer's fitter. Received June 9. at 8.55 a.m. London, June 9. " Harry Pike, at Bow street Court, suited uJiat he wanted to test the. possibility of entering the palace because of suffragette* allusions to the subject. He admitted' that he had been drinking for several days. He explained that he climbed: the railings on Constitution Hill aad the spiked wall, dropped twenty feet into the area., gained admission through 4i basement windon', ascended; the staircase to the long cor- j i idoi- at the top of the palace, entered a: room where he changed l his .torn I clothing, .and then entered a second chamber, alarming two sleeping maid servants. He apologised for ins mistake, and finally entered a room whereJames Cople, the Queen's page, was sleeping. Cople awoke, and pursued and captunKl' him. It was stated that Pike seemed respectable, and that his action was evidently a. freak due to drinking. The police are inclined to accept this explanation..

Cople gave evidence that the floor where Pike was captured gave access to the whole palace. The Magistrate pointed out thatthere had! been a. theft of several articles, and he remanded l accused for a week.