“MUSIC” IN COURT
There was a musical interlude at Lambeth Police Court when William Warner (70), a gardener, was charged before Mr H. G. Kooth for begging. Warner denied that he was begging, and said he was playing a tin-whistle. Mr Rooth: The “Dead March” in “Saul,” for instance? Warner: Yes. Mr Rooth: Then play it. Warner took a whistle from his pocket and played a tuneful melody. Mr Rooth: However brilliant a performance that may have been, I don't think Handel would hare recognised it. Still, I think a man who can pin/ as well as that ought not to be here for begging. Don’t come here again. ■Whenever you see a police officer approaching, out with the whistle, hut if you must play the “Dead March, don’t bo so cheerful!
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12425, 20 April 1926, Page 3
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