Superintendent Oldspot

…no wise prompted them to leave off the day’s sale of fortifying liquor. For this reason inter alia, Superintendent ‘Gloucester’ Oldspot, acting in his capacity as Area Commander, had petitioned the Justices of the Peace and the Aldermen in the Council Chamber, and had sought and obtained leave from those estimable ladies and gentlemen to suspend our faubourg’s status as a designated yobbery, in order that he might summon the…

…Towards one o’clock in the morning, therefore, Superintendent Oldspot made a series of calls to variously official and quasi-official telephone numbers in Clifton and North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, the upshot of which was the vey prompt deployment of forces from the Newport Constabulary and from several other Constabularies of the Principality, these having until then been held in reserve against just such an eventuality.

…Mr Ian Corby held back from the thick of the battle, hovered above the bacon’s lines. Espied then Superintendent Oldspot, standing by the corner of the Katze und Rad with Alderman Shallow and Alderman Silent, swooped down and alighted just by them.