" Sang Before Five Kings."

Press, Volume L, Issue 15022, 17 July 1914, Page 6

" Sang Before Five Kings."

Frank Elliott, a musician, 60,----giving addresses at tho I.le of and AVyndham street, Marylebono, .ho eiauns to nave snug bmore tive king? "■-' on one day, aud to have been com. inanded beioro the late King Etiwafd on --' o<-casions, was cJilirg«_l at Alary-' lebono v<itii being drunk and disorderly in Great Quebec, street (.says tbo "Standard"). He deciure-J that he had had no intoxicating liquor for eleven years. The divisional burgeon who examined him at the police .{. tion iigreed that ho was not drunk, and added: "He is blind in tho right eye, ! and is at the present timo bombastic and excitable, which might readily be mistaken for the effects of alcoholism." Tho accused declared that ho had tho finest reference, in Eugland, and, was the only man who had sung beforo five ' kings in one day. Ho was now in ; a competition, and was going to beat all London—at 60 years of age.. "Ifl t.e circumstances, and as I do not wish to spoil your holiday," said the magistrate, ''you will be discharged with a caution.''