 He showed himself especially skilful in exposing the practises of usurious money-lenders.One of the last cases he was involved in personally was the Archer-Shee case in 1908, the 14-year-old naval cadet expelled from Osborne College accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order, the basis of Rattigan's play "The Winslow Boy".He was well known as a tidy disposer of skeletons in closets.