The Wooster Papers

Cast

Constable Oates

Also called Oates, Eustace Oates, Police Constable Oates, Constable Eustace Oates, The constable, The zealous officer

Constable Eustace Oates, the village policeman at Totleigh, whose helmet is stolen and who is set to guard the cow-creamer.

In each book 2 books
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    Constable Eustace Oates, the village policeman at Totleigh, whose helmet is stolen and who is set to guard the cow-creamer.
  • In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
    Police Constable Eustace Oates, Totleigh's village policeman, whose helmet was once pinched; he locks Bertie up and resents letting him go.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (11)

Scenes they are in

The Code of the Woosters 5 scenes
  1. Bartholomew upsets Constable Oates off his bicycle, Stiffy admits she has Gussie's notebook, and reveals that she is secretly engaged to Stinker Pinker and has told him to pinch Oates's helmet.Chapter 4, the Totleigh gates, as policeman
  2. Bertie asks Sir Watkyn for Stiffy's hand, and when Stiffy says she would rather marry the curate, the horrified Sir Watkyn gladly consents to her marrying Harold Pinker instead.Chapter 9, the library, as Constable Eustace Oates
  3. Bertie tosses the helmet out of the window, Sir Watkyn's search of his room finds nothing, and as Bertie harangues him the butler appears with the helmet on a salver.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  4. Locked in, Bertie talks to Jeeves through the door, learns that Sir Watkyn has forbidden Stiffy to marry Stinker, and urges Jeeves to cosh Oates with a shovel.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  5. Jeeves admits he got Spode to take the blame, Bertie threatens Sir Watkyn with a lawsuit until he blesses both engagements, and Bertie buys the secret of Eulalie by agreeing to the world cruise.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Oates
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 4 scenes
  1. Spode, Sir Watkyn and Plank denounce Bertie as a thief, Madeline drops him and accepts Spode, and when Bertie sneezes behind the sofa Sir Watkyn sends for Constable Oates and promises him twenty-eight days.Chapter 23, Totleigh Towers, as Oates
  2. Constable Oates, still sore about the cold he caught guarding Bertie's window, marches him to the village lock-up and puts him in its only cell.Chapter 24, the police station, as Oates
  3. Stiffy visits Bertie's cell and offers to confess to taking the statuette, Bertie refuses to let her, and Oates returns glumly to say Sir Watkyn has dropped the charge.Chapter 24, the police station, as mine host
  4. Freed, Bertie refuses Stiffy's plan to get even with Oates, then learns from Jeeves that he won the release by agreeing to work for Sir Watkyn for a while, and gives up his Alpine hat to Jeeves, who will pass it on to the courting Butterfield.Chapter 24, Totleigh-in-the-Wold, as Oates

Talked about, but not there

The Code of the Woosters 10 scenes
  1. Jeeves reveals the Junior Ganymede's club book, offers to telephone its Secretary for dirt on Spode, and on his way out mentions that Gussie's engagement to Madeline is off, as the dinner gong sounds.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  2. Stiffy comes back early, refuses to call off her dog, and tells Bertie she has broken off her engagement to Stinker because he would not pinch the policeman’s helmet.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room, as Eustace Oates
  3. Stinker climbs in by the balcony with Oates’s helmet, is reconciled with Stiffy, and is told that Bertie will help with the cow-creamer scheme at midnight.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room, as Eustace Oates
  4. Stiffy exults over Jeeves's scheme, reveals that Oates suspects her of the helmet theft and that she has hidden Gussie's notebook in the cow-creamer, and Butterfield summons Bertie to Madeline.Chapter 9, Totleigh Towers, as Oates
  5. Madeline tells Bertie she will marry him now she has finished with Gussie; Bertie explains the notebook and nearly convinces her, but she finds nothing in the cow-creamer and decides he made it all up.Chapter 10, the Totleigh drawing-room
  6. Bertie tells Jeeves to pack for home and crows over the notebook, until Gussie trickles in to say the wedding is off.Chapters 10–11, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  7. Bertie sees Spode off from menacing Gussie, mocks his asparagus-eating, and Jeeves arrives with the brandy and news that Oates was assaulted and the cow-creamer stolen, sending Spode galloping off.Chapter 11, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  8. Jeeves tells how a thief took the cow-creamer while Stinker, waiting in the dark for Bertie, punched Oates on the nose, and Oates now plans to search Bertie's room, just as Aunt Dahlia rushes in and thrusts the cow-creamer into Bertie's hands.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as the officer
  9. After Aunt Dahlia leaves, Bertie relaxes with brandy and declares the troubles over, only for Jeeves to find a policeman's helmet in the small suitcase he is packing.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Oates
  10. Bertie refuses to let Aunt Dahlia buy his freedom with Anatole, plans his release dinner, defies Sir Watkyn, and is saved when Spode confesses to stealing the helmet.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 3 scenes
  1. Brooding at the Drones, Bertie is told that the Rev. H. P. Pinker wants to see him, and Stinker lumbers in and upsets a small table.Chapters 2–3, the Drones smoking-room, as Constable Eustace Oates
  2. Relieved, Bertie goes home and finds Gussie in a cab bound for Totleigh, who raves about Emerald Stoker and then declares that Madeline makes him sick.Chapters 3–4, Bertie's flat
  3. Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.Chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room