The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-09
BREAKS GORDON Of
POLICE At PALACE
MAN DISCOVERED IN BUCKINGHAM
RuMMAGING ROOMS OF QUEENS
ATTENDANTS.
DE CT A RES WAS BET
THINKS HIM A sUFFRAGETTE.
WILD WOMEN ATTEMPT sToP
CATHOLIC CHURCH SERVICES.
ROUGHLY HANDLED.
DECL ARES WAS BET

London, June S.-The rigid police
guard which has been policing Buck
ingham Palace ever since the sue
cess of some suffragettes in getting
by the ordinary guard, was broken
through in the early hours of Sunday
morning by man named Harry
Pike aged twenty-five. who describes
himself as an engineers helper. The
speculation as to the object OF the
man in forcing his way into the palace
grounds includes. naturally, one that
he was In Tire etftftet EFT SUI
fragettes, but there Is nothing con-
flrmatory of this supposition.
Pike scaled the wall of the palace
gardens near the foot of Constitution
Hill, notwithstanding the formidable
spikes. which tore mis- clothes, but he
was apparently uninjured. Then. af-
ter hiding for a while in the shrub
berry, he forced an entrance TO the
basement Of the palace and assembled
to the servants quarters, where ne
entered several rooms. In one OF
these he awoke a maid servant,
whereupon he withdrew after making
hurried apology. He got into anoth-
err room where he replaced his torn
clothes with another suit from some
hody's wardrobe and rummaged
through several rooms after the fash
ion OF burglars, He is reported to
have stolen several silver cigarette
cases and other things.
In Pages Room.
Finally Pike entered q room where
one OF Queen Mary's pages, named
Copple. was in bed. but awake. Cop
pie Jumped cut Of bed and chased the
intruder into the corridor, meanwhile
raising an alarm. and pike was ulti-
mately arrested with the help OF the
police He said his entrance Into the
palace was the result Of dare The
newspapers had been stating, apropos
of the suffragettes, that IT would he
impossible for anyone to force an en-
trance into the palace. Pike says he
did not believe this was So and some
of his friends challenged him to prove
his theory. He denied that ne had
any intention TO steal. He will be ar
raigned in Bow street police court IN
the morning.
The suffragettes' church hrawline
sn11ad transferred their operations
from the Protestant TO the Roman
Catholic churches of London today
and they got rough handling %hlcf
had not neen met within their pre-
vious interruptions of church ser
vices. Bromrton Oratory was th'
~
this was during the low mass at neon
Father Bowden had 3ust entered th'
pulpit TO speak when several womer
! in different parts of the church be
gan the customary PankhurstlaI
singsong They were promptly eject
ed with little trouble.
Then several women individually a
| intervals created q disturbance anf
were elected.
Elected From Church.
| There was an amazing scene on th'
steps of the Oratory as the Nerger'
| and others plunged out with the wild
Yelling women in their grasp.
After 1t was all over il was founf
that the floor near the pulpit wa!
strewn with smashed combs ant
| feathers, ribbons and handkerchiers.
! The evening service at the West
minister Roman Catholic cathedra
was also disturbed by the suffragettes
| They started to interrupt as F'athel
! VAUGHAN, the noted Jesuit preacher
| was about to begin his sermon, bu
/ the Drawers presumably had learn
! ed of the rough treatment Of othe'
women at Brompton Oratory and sub
mitted to election without resistance