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== Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer by Sup John Sadleir ==

The curious thing was that no other police had any luck in this way. I asked Du Vernet one day the secret of his success. He claimed no special credit; anyone, he thought, should be able to distinguish amongst a crowd of working miners with their round shoulders and heavy gait, the man who had been for years in the hands of the drill-sergeant. In cases where he was in doubt about his man, he had adopted some such expedient as saying suddenly: ‘Your shoulder knot is undone,’ when up went the soldier’s hand to set it right. But I do not think Du Vernet was without other sources of information. His good looks and taking ways had won the admiration of the female shanty-keepers, young and old, and these were just the sort of persons who were in the way of picking up odds and ends of information that a man like Du Vernet knew how to use.

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