LEVY THE CORNET PLAYER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 655, 20 March 1879, Page 2

LEVY THE CORNET PLAYER

A Southland paper states with reference to the ''great Levy": — Our Inveroargill friends will remember the great cornet player Levy, who visited this city some months ago. It would appear he has been getting into trouble again. An American exchange aays : — Gillmore's Band, with Levy, the cornet player, gave a concert last night, The performance was delayed half-an-hour by a constable seizing Levy's cornet on an attachment for a debt contracted by the musician when he gave a concert here some two years ago. When the constable tried to serve the process at Troy House, he ran away, leaping into a sleigh containing Mdme. de Murska, making frantic but ineffectual efforts to conceal the horn about his person. The constable, nothing daunted, followed, and landed on Mdme. de Murska's lap. The sleigh was driven, to the Music Hall, where Levy jumped out, and ran upstairs blowing and shouting to the members of the band, "Throw him downstairs ! Kill him !" After the constable seized the cornet, Levy denied the ownersliip, but as Mr. Gillmore agreed to pay the bill, the waiting audience was emabled to hear the dulcet sounds of the much seized instrument. ,It is asserted that the cornet did not in fact belong to Levy, but was the property of the maker, whose lien upon it had never been discharged.