"The London police have no very high opinion of country talent, but we beat them sometimes, all the same--not that I want to say a word against the Metropolitans. They've such opportunities, and so much knowledge. Now there was Jim Highflyer; he'd never have been 'copped' but for a couple of London detectives. He was a first-class workman was Highflyer, and he once spent a long time in this town--not in his own name. While he was here there were no end of big burglaries, and we never could get at the rights of them. One of the worst of the lot was a plate robbery from a jeweller's in Queen Street. A man with a sack had been tracked by one of the constables a long way that night into the yard of a house, and there he was lost. The house belonged to one of the town councillors, Mr. T---- by name, a most respectable man, very free with his money, and popular. We searched the yard next morning, and found a lot of the plate in a dust-heap. Mr. T---- gave us every assistance. It was quite plain how it had come there. There was no suspicion against Mr. T----, of course; and do what we could, we couldn't pick up the man we wanted. By-and-by the town councillor went away for a long spell; the house was shut up--not let, as he was coming back, he said, and did once or twice. After he left the burglaries stopped, and I'd have thought very little more about it all if it hadn't been that I heard a man, who had been arrested for an assault, and was in ----shire Gaol, had been recognised by two London detectives as a notorious burglar, Jim Highflyer. He'd got a knife upon him, and the name of the maker was a cutler in this town; also a silver pencil-case, with the name of the jeweller in Queen Street. I went over to the gaol, and identified the man at once. It was the town councillor himself, Mr. T----. We searched his house here after that, and found it crammed full of stolen goods. You see, there it was the Metropolitans did the job. Highflyer would have got off with a few weeks for the assault, but they knew him and all about him. He was 'wanted' just then for several other affairs. He got ten years, did Master Jim.