QUEUE ETIQUETTE INVOKED IN COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18045, 4 January 1927, Page 5

QUEUE ETIQUETTE INVOKED IN COURT.

(Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, October 25. Police-Constable Joseph Lewis Woollett, F Division, Metropolitan Police, ■was summoned at Bow Street on Sat urday for assaulting Mrs Annie Muslin, a young woman, of St. Mark s Street, Aldgate, E. , Mrs Muslin said that on October 15 she took up a position alone in the gallery queue at the Adclphi Theatre, Strand, and at 6 pm. went away for some tea. She asked other people in the queue to keep her place. She returned about 7.15 p.m. Sir Charles Biron (magistrate) : I don’t know what the etiquette of the queue is. Can you reserve places like this? The magistrate’s clerk said he did not think it was usual to have places reserved for so long as an hour and a quarter. # Mrs Muslin: Oh, yes; it is quite usual among gallery people. Mrs Muslin said that while she was trying to work her way along the queue on her return Woollett, who was waiting there with his wife, pushed her down some steps. Ultimately she regained her position. Cross-examined, Mrs Muslin denied that she struck Woollett in the eye with her umbrella. Woollett said that Mrs Muslin, blackened his eye with her umbrella, and he seized her wrists merely to protect himself. Sir. Charles Biron dismissed the sum-mons,-with: £2 2s costs against Mrs Muslin. He said that he should have thought that if a position was vacated it was a matter of courtesy whether the person was allowed to reoccupy it.