Section 29

Whenever any person shall under suspicious circumstances offer to pawn any article or to redeem any pledge or whenever any person shall offer to pawn any article or redeem any pledge corresponding to the description given to any pawnbroker by any police officer of any article lost or fraudulently or dishonestly disposed of or acquired, the pawnbroker shall enquire of such person how he came into possession of the article or of the pawn-ticket, as the case may be: and if such person shall not satisfactorily account for his possession thereof or shall give false information as to the possession or as to the name and place of abode of himself or of the owner of the article or pawn-ticket, or if there be any other reason to suspect any dishonest dealings in respect of the article or pawn-ticket, the pawnbroker shall immediately report such proposed transaction to the nearest police station.