Possible Clues:

• Followed by the police, sped off
• Smelly and going bad
• Rotten half of canvas repaired and put in shed
• It's bad to have one broken drain about a hundred
• Stale, with an offensive smell
• Chased the Spanish hero off
• The bad way in which one managed the detectives
• Managed the dectives in a very bad sort of way
• Sour like stale grease 96)
• Stale, rank