HOLLISTON STORE IS RANSACKED, NO COPS
August 23, 1920 – Frank Dandero of Framingham, owner of the fruit store at the corner of Washington and Green streets, found upon opening his store yesterday morning that it had been ransacked. A Victrola and records valued at $125 were taken, also cigars and cigarettes. The vacancy made by the resignation of M.T. Hayes leaves the town without a night watchman, making it easy work for the burglars. No clues have been found as of yet.
February 16, 1934 – Chief of Police Lewis T. Holbrook had a busy time yesterday searching automobiles after notice from the police of Palmer to be on the watch for a vehicle carrying three men, a machine gun and other dangerous weapons.
Friday the 13th Is Unlucky In Upton For Petting Parties
May 13, 1938 – Friday, the 13th, is an unlucky day for automobile petting parties in Upton, for on this jinx day, Acting Chief of Police Daniel H. Bates instituted a drive against all automobile parking-petting parties. “Too many women screaming in the dead of the night and too much mischief happening in this town lately,” is the reason that Chief Bates instituted the drive. Today, Acting Chief Bates issued orders to the entire force, 29 in all, including constables, police officers and special police officers to keep the parkers moving. This edict is a death blow to parkers in the entire vicinity who for many years past have found the sylvan glades of Upton, conducive to romance. MDN
HOLLISTON INVASION BRINGS DISPUTE OVER TOWN BOUNDARY
JULY 1941 – When he received reports from motorists that the herd of cattle was wandering all over route 16, in the vicinity of the East Holliston railroad station, Chief Holbrook sped to the scene and judged that the cows were on the Sherborn side of the line, so he got in touch with Chief Harold Jackson of that town and asked him to come down and take care of his problem.
While Chief Jackson was enroute to the scene, however, the herd got out of hand and kept edging over the line into Holliston, thus putting Chief Holbrook in command of the situation. With the aid of some volunteers he tried to persuade the cows to return to Sherborn, but the odds were against him, for just as the herd was headed in the right direction, Chief Jackson’s car came around the curve and the cows returned to Holliston and refused to be moved in any direction but toward the center of the town.
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