A Court Story.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 40, 9 June 1914, Page 5

A Court Story.

ENSPEGTING THE PALACE. MAN'S PECULIAR FREAK. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, June 8.

Harry Pike at Bow Street Court, stated that he wanted to test the possibility of entering the Palace because of the suffragette allusions to the subject. He admitted he had been drinking for several days. He explained that he. climbed the railways on Constitution Hill and the spiked wall and dropped twenty feet into the area. He gained admission through the basement window, ascended the staircase to the long corridor at the top of the Palace, entered a room and changed his torn clothes, entered a second ichamber, thereby alarming two sleeping maid servants, to whom ho apologised for his mistake, and finally entered a room where James Cople, the Queen’s page, was sleeping. Cople awoke and pursued and captured Pike. Mr Muskett stated that Pike seemed respectable. His action was evidently a freak due to drinking. The police are inclined to accept the explanation. Cople gave evidence that the floor where Pike was captured gave access to the whole Palace. The Magistrate pointed out that there had been theft of several articles. He remanded Pike for a week.