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Bottleneck. In Horsham, England, police were making little progress in solving a burglary until they put some extra men on the case to help Police Sergeant William J. Wykes, got results when Wykes was arrested as the culprit...
Child of England. Field Place, the Sussex manor house where Shelley was born and grew up, "has a mighty roof of Horsham stone, and a line of chimneys like towers." It also has a park, a brook and a lake satisfactory to a fanciful child. Shelley's father, the squire, was a progressive gentleman farmer and brought up his eldest son to know something about pig-raising and Swedish turnips. If Percy seemed literary in boyhood, his literariness was long confined to a large appetite for sixpenny thrillers about vampires, specters and enchantments-a set of motifs he never...
Died. Norman Magnus Macleod of Macleod, 90, "The Macleod," 23rd chief of his clan; at Horsham, England...