Fahey's Faux Pas

NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 6

Fahey's Faux Pas

TI-IB story is told: "A series of par--1 ticularly impertinent burglaries hud baffled the police. The constnble was young, ambitious, alert and full of initiative. On beat one dark night, he noticed a, light shining from a large, aristocratic-looking dwelling. He approached . . . espying through a window a woman feverishly filling a basket with articles from a cupboard. "But, hush! . . . who is this m muffled garb scurrying along the drive? An accomplice, no doubt, to receive the plunder! Never, hesitating, .the: lynxlike constable flitted across the grounds with the agility of a love-sick tomcat, and accosted his quarry . . . "Alas! No morning paper's startling headlines rewarded the young sleuth's daring escapade, for 'twas a medical man, not' a burglar, whom the constable had bailed up m the. grounds of a maternity home!" So goes the tale. If it is erroneous m origin or detail, .we pray forgiveness of Sub- inspector John Fahey, of Dunedin. But whether fable or fact, we know that big, good-natured Fahey's Irish sense nf humor will bring .him ; In with the laugh. At all events, what if a little overambitiousness does misfire? — it happens to all of us; but m the longrun the man who puts his heart and soul into his work, giving always of his best — as Fahey has — must eventually skip up the ladder of success. Identified by his gaunt figure and snow-white moustache— as white as his heart — J.F. is known m almost every police centre of any importance throughout the Dominion.