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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22391, 12 October 1934, Page 18

A London detective, acting under instructions to watch in a certain spot for a wanted man, disguised himself as an old ex-sailor, selling matches. The arrest was made after a wait of six days. But the time spent was profitable in another way, for he collected £7 12s. So well did he act the part that passers-by responded liberally to his silent appeal. His stock of matches was little reduced, for the total of his “ earnings ” was chiefly made up by charitable gifts, and not from his sales. The detective’s chief ordered that the money should be paid in to the police account, on the ground that it had been earned in the employer’s time and was, therefore, the property of the State. It was reported, however, that the final destination of the money had still to be settled.