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Northern Advocate, 18 June 1923, Page 8

A very good story is going - the rounds regarding an "invasion" by the police of a certain hotel in Timarn (reports the "Post"). One of the men in blue, a.s lie was entering the hotel, noticed .someone preparing to leave. "What are you doing here?" Are you a boarder?" he asked in a grim tone. "Yes, I'm a boarder," replied the j)orson in question, with an air of indifference. "Is your n«me on the book?" was the next question put bv Pip repi'o-enfati<'r> of the law. "1 don't know," was fho reply. The policemon then asked the gentleman to go to the office with him. They went and searched through the lodgers' book, but. the man's name could not lie found. The policeman was' jusf heo-innui.iv to Ihink t!i: t he "had a ease" when his "quarry," who is well known for his laconic humour, nonchalantly remarked that, if he remembered correcHy, lie had been stopping at the hotel for nearly a quarter of a century. The man in blue immediately retired.