It won't work.

You'll have the Major on the Bench with you, and though he doesn't like the man, I don't think he'd commit him to prison for cruelty to children, or breaking windows while under the influence of drink, or anything of that sort, unless he'd really done it." "I wouldn't do the like," said Doyle, "and no more would the doctor." "Our plan," said the doctor, "is to get a salmon, a large salmon." "Poach it ?" said Meldon.
"No; buy it.

Doyle would buy it.

Then he'd give it to me in the presence of several witnesses--" "Sabina would do for one," said Meldon, "She's a most intelligent girl, and I'm sure she'd swear anything afterwards that she was wanted to." "She wouldn't have to swear anything but the truth," said Doyle.
"Of course not," said Meldon.

"But lots of people won't do even that." "I'd go up the river," said Dr.O'Donoghue, "and I'd take my rod and landing-net and the salmon with me, and I'd sit down on the bank and wait." "Simpkins," said Doyle, "does be walking up along the river every evening, so the doctor wouldn't be there for very long before he'd be caught." "I see," said Meldon.