Community Corner
Eighteenth Week - Monday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"In 1932 Medfield Chief of Police, Coleman J. Hogan, had a busy year. His end of the year report included three people stopped for driving under the influence, nine assault and battery charges, one attempt of assault with a loaded revolver, five disturbing the peace, one illegitimacy, four larceny of gasoline, two cases of manufacturing liquor were turned over to Federal Agent, five boys’ bicycles stolen, five cases of gasoline stolen from cars parked outside of houses, one case of gasoline taken from the contractor’s house at the new Pump House in Harding, 22 hens stolen, a marble statue stolen, two stray horses found, one person committed to Medfield State Hospital, three men found sick and returned home, 30 automobile accidents of which one person was killed."
