A Tricycle has been used to Chase a Thief
Tricycles have been adopted by the Coventry police as well as by those of Birmingham. At the first-mentioned town a constable the other day used one to chase a thief and succeeded in catching him – not, however, it appears, so much by virtue of its superior speed as because the fugitive was taken off his guard, never thinking that it was a “bobby” riding down upon him on the novel machine.
The Graphic, June 25, 1881