THE LADY'S STOCKING
"It was simply a mad freak," urge>l Major George Edward Pattinson (52), a stockbroker, llvinfc at Cecil House, High Street. Marylebone. when charged with insulting behavior. A constable states that on the previous night he heard a whistle and found a number of people looking out of their windows. i Other officers also arrived, and while they were ail searching for the whistle ;h?y heard the sound agniu from another stree". They ran there and saw accused with a lady outside a nursing home. ; 'Witness asked him if he had blown the whistle, and straightaway he put his flnsers Into his mouth and jrave a shrill whistle in I witness's face, "which was an exact iiotaition of a police whistle."' J On beinc told that he would be arrested he remarked: "It is only a joke. I blew for assistance because this lady's stocking was On Pattinson promising to see that the affair did not happen azati, he was die-
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 84, 8 April 1922, Page 19
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163THE LADY'S STOCKING Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 84, 8 April 1922, Page 19
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