Word: broughton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Lord Erroll was found shot through the head at the age of 39, in 1941, police arrested one of the cuckolded husbands, Sir John Henry ("Jock") Delves Broughton, 57. The motive seemed compelling. Broughton's bride of three months, Diana, 27, had fallen in love with Lord Erroll and wanted a divorce. Always the gentleman, Jock acquiesced; he even went so far as to bless the union of his erstwhile best friend and his bride. But as Lord Erroll remarked on the eve of his murder, "He has been so nice it smells...
...time, the Kenyan aristocrats closed ranks to protect one of their own, though most suspected Broughton of the crime. A friend gave him an alibi. Diana hired a brilliant defense lawyer from South Africa. After Broughton was acquitted of the murder, he received a cable from the Earl of Carnarvon and Montgomery (HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ON WINNING A NECK CLEVERLY), and was invited to recuperate from the trial at the palace of the Maharajah of Jhopur. Still, the smell persisted. Thirty years after the crime, Fox persuaded three people to talk about the murder confessions Broughton had made to them before...
...caught up with the 68-year-old millionaire in 1981, he was impressed by her still handsome figure, her "ice-blue eyes," and her sapphires and diamonds. She told Fox about another crime, perhaps a worse one in the eyes of the denizens of Happy Valley. After the murder, Broughton had gone to Lord Erroll's estate and killed one of his dogs, a dachshund. As Lady Delamere saw it, there could no longer be any doubt that Broughton was "the most evil man." -By Patricia Blake
...Captain Broughton: I don't care if you've got Lizzie Borden going down on Jack the Ripper in the middle of Times Square. I've got enough whores, pimps, creeps and queers out there to start my own Macy's parade. Clean up this precinct first...