My precious talking machine motor!

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.

Author: Keith Testa

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