Under the above headline, the following report appeared in the Daily Mail on the 10th July 1936.

A motorist was going to Bristol and offered a lift to a man who looked nearly...but not quite...like a tramp.

Later they overran some traffic lights and were stopped by a policeman who asked for the driver's licence (which was four days out of date) and his insurance certificate which had been left at home. Thus the motorist was facing at least three charges.

He drove on and his passenger, asking to be put down, said "Thank-you very much for the lift. I am so sorry that you have had this trouble with the police. I am a poor man so I cannot offer to pay your fine but I can give you this little token of my thanks".

He took out of his pocket the policeman's notebook in which were written all the charges.

Asked how he came to have it, the man replied, smiling, "That is my profession, sir".