The Concord Police Department gave us access to its police logbooks from years past. Check out what Concord crime was like in the 1940s!
Feb. 23, 1941: Mrs. Fred Biddleton, Summer St., complains of Knox family making a lot of noise. The boy was playing a horn and singing.
April 5, 1941: Irvine Eklund, 91 West Main. St. reports his house broken into and a Victor talking machine motor taken. Also 100 records and a ukulele.
April 6, 1941: Tubby Holmes reports a breakin last night. Took candy cigs, 50 pennies.
April 9, 1941: Mrs. Charles Morse of High Street reports that her dog was snapping at her and may be having a fit. Wants him put away. When I got there, he was somewhere in the woods by the ball park.
April 23, 1941: Complaint of a man who was short and stocky with green felt hat. He accosted three girls on the street at noon.
May 2, 1941: Mrs. Sue Fournier, West Main St., reports her washing missing from the clothesline. Found on porch. Her husband took them in early this morning.
May 15, 1941: Mrs. Colby, River Rd. complains of the Hicks and Murry girls playing with fire along the roadway near her house.
May 24, 1941: Jim Supry wants to know why he can’t be taken off the black list. Hdqts. said for him to see the Chief.
Dec. 6, 1941: Mrs. Florence Chandler, 20 Winter St., complains of Buster Jones or Walter French throwing empty whiskey bottles across the fence into the field. She had about forty bottles she picked up.
