MUSIC AT MIDNIGHT
PIPES NOT APPRECIATED Pleading he was a “quiet player,” a bearded piper, at Oban, Scotland, recently, put in a novel defence when he was accused of a breach of the peace by playing his pipes at midnight in Combie Street. The mah, James Stewart, of no fixed residence, stated to be a convict on licence and to have four aliases, was said to have roused the whole street with his rendering of “Cock o’ the North.”
“I could not stop playing,” he told Baillie Mackie, “because a gentleman I met earlier in the evening invited me to play and gave me sixpence. I wanted to give him his money’s worth, otherwise I should have had to return him his sixpence.” Stewart was ordered to pay a fine of 10s.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 215, 10 September 1937, Page 11
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132MUSIC AT MIDNIGHT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 215, 10 September 1937, Page 11
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