The official record of the Elkton PD, the police blotter, provides around-the-clock entries as life unfolded and the community interacted with its lawmen. Most of these fleeting encounters would have been quickly lost in time were it not for the brief items penned into the ledgers. This long run of volumes provides day-by-day insight into…
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From Weather to Crimes, Police Blotters Give Glimpse of Bygone Elkton
The Elkton Police Department carefully and meticulously chronicled day-to-day happenings for the rural Maryland law enforcement agency in five-pound ledger books from 1955 to 1993. As patrolmen went on and off duty, requests for police aid came in, suspects were arrested, weather conditions changed, or accidents happened, officers filled the pages of these heavy blotters with the…