Cambridge Daily News 18 Aug 1897: P.C. Salmon catches thieves

Today we have pleasure in chronicling a capture which redoubts to the credit of the Cambridgeshire County Constabulary. There appears to be an idea prevalent amongst London thieves that once in this county they have an easy job in "cracking a crib" and getting away with their booty. Evidently full of this delusion two such men ran down to Trumpington, their innocent hearts full of the joys in store. They bargained however without the personality of P.C. Salmon, the resident guardian of Trumpington's peace, a burly and genial officer to those who keep the law and a terror to those who "love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil". P.C. Salmon - alas for the hopes of these two disciples of Bill Sykes - sleeps only when the burglar is not "serenading" and moreover he rides a "bike". To this cycle the culprits owe the fact that their "cycle of freedom" is run and that they have fallen "a cropper" with a bad puncture.