BPDNews recently rated a mention in the City Letter, a site maintained by a Dorchester historian.Fans of our crime summaries are invited to visit his site, and take a look back at some of the crime that was reported on this date in 1837…
“A book thief detected in Cornhill; he had been stealing books from Burnham\’s Antiquarian Bookstore. He made free to bolt out the back way, and up Franklin Avenue, not stopping long enough to have it ascertained who he was.”
(Thanks to Universal Hub for the link)