If we tell him, he'll be bound to tell the police, to explain about those footmarks; and when it comes out that we got into the house, I should think we are pretty certain to be charged with having stolen the coins.

The situation was discussed and there seemed no doubt in the mind of any one of the party that the only thing to be done was to inform the police at once.

He wanted to save so many innocents, he thought of notifying the police, but a carriage drove up to set down Padre Salvi and Padre Irene, both beaming with content, and like a passing cloud his good intentions vanished.

"He's afraid of methinks I mean to set the police on his trail.

"Aren't you afraid he'll bring down the police and delay your sailing?"

A very temperate speech of Lord Durham, and a very good one of Lord Suffield, respecting the new police.

Not only that, but they are probably worried sick and have probably called the police about their missing child.

All the same, it would be very awkward if he sent the police that jack-knife, and told them he'd seen us climbing out of the old chap's window.

They'll be asking the police to look for me next.

[g]; but this seems only to have been an attempt of that great legislator towards establishing a better police in the kingdom, and it probably remained without execution.

Had you been something of the man I thought, I might have gone with you and helped to baffle the police; but you were not.

A good idea, perhapsthe presumption being that, sooner or later, if the man was in any way mixed up with the cunning thieves, he would either rejoin his comrades or even lead the police to where the remnant of his hoard lay hidden; needless to say, his footsteps were to be literally dogged.

His course of action has not been that of a man anxious to assist the police in the discovery of the murderer of his old friend.

You have only to warn the police...." "You'll notice he says it is in confidence.

On Saturday night, the Commissary of Police arrived in town from the third and fourth districts, with some twenty or thirty prisoners, who had been convicted before the Chief Justice of having assaulted the police in the execution of their duty, and sent to gaol.

Its government is entrusted to a corregidor or governor, appointed by the king of Portugal; and two judges are chosen annually, one for the determination of naval and maritime causes, and the other for regulating the police.

Somebody helped the police and got hurt.

Compromised as a member of secret societies, he managed to escape the police, but was condemned in his absence to fines and imprisonment.

As we passed through villages or came to cross roads we saw military police, directing traffic, precisely as they do at busy intersections of crowded streets in London or New York.

She was under the impression that no one knew about the letters, and her object in removing them was to prevent the police stumbling across them and so getting on the track of her husband.

" "Illustrious prince, she would say that the Republic was content to grant the son the indulgence of visiting the captive, with some encouragement of his release, on condition that the youth might serve the police by bearing a bravo's reputation.

The advertisements had announced that the contest was to come off at, "or as near thereto as circumstances permitted" (circumstances here meaning the police), the village of Little Bury, near Saffron Walden.

The hound has left the police behind, and we may still escape.'

" "Beaumont enjoyed amongst his confraternity a colossal reputation; and even now, when a rogue boasts of his lofty exploits'Hold your tongue,' they say, 'you are not worthy to untie the shoe-strings of Beaumont!'" "In effect, to have robbed the police was the height of address.

"Just wot I thought, miss," said the complaisant Mr. Smith; "but I s'pose there was nobody else, and he wanted 'is message to go for fear you should get worrying the police about 'im or something.