BLACK SHEEP

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 7

BLACK SHEEP

Tale That Didn't Go Down JEKYLL AND HYDE (From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) If picturesque names stand for anything, the parents of Preston Eddis Luce Broad intended to give him a good start m life when they bestowed his "monica" on him m good old England half a century ago. . : DROAD'S principal accomplishments D are the art of speaking 1 his piece somewhat fluently — the result, no doubt, of a sound cultural education — and the ability to manipulate the keys and stops. of a pipe organ. A lifetime spent at the console of some mighty mechanical instrument probably cultivated m Broad the capacity for unconscious finger-wandering as, at the command of the virtuoso, the swell of the thunderous diapason, or the mellow tones of the humanas, flooded some old-world building and entranced a host of listeners.: But when Broad hit Lyttelton his fingers wandered m other directions. It was not sonatas and preludes which answered the touch of the master, but a big consignment of other people's personal property. ' A remittance of £10 a month received through Lloyds' Bank, has apparently been insufficient to sustain the unemployed organist, for m the two years he has made ' New Zealand his habitat, he has established an unenviable "list" for dishonesty. Broad endeavored to establish the defence of a dual personality, and told the court he had been living a JekyllHyde existence.. He boasted a noble heritage,/ buf every family has its black sheep,' and Broad assumed the mantle for his family m this respect when pleading for leniency; ; .