Word: prowler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street, Cambridge, Mass., Miss Alice A. Thorp, granddaughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was entertaining visitors when she heard footsteps above. Fluttering upstairs, Miss Thorp peeked into a bedroom just in time to see a closet door close softly. She tugged it open. Out of the closet scuttled a scared prowler to jump through the window, vanish...
...Rafael, Calif., seeing Prowler A. Monti enter a house, Deputy Sheriff George Smith followed, confronted Monti. Drawing his pistol, Deputy Sheriff Smith shot himself in the hand. At the sight of blood Prowler Monti gave himself...
...Brooklyn, Policeman Frank Wright spied a nocturnal prowler in his garden. He grabbed his pistol, rushed out of the house in his pajamas, took after the fleeing prowler, dropped him with a bullet in the ankle. "Well, you did it," said the wounded man as Policeman Wright glowered above him. A neighbor, Irving Katlin, the prowler said he was an insomniac. He had entered Policeman Wright's garden, which he had long admired, to soothe his sleeplessness. Policeman Wright, contrite, called an ambulance and said: "I'll give you some of my rose slips...
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...hour before dark, and with five men looking on-all of whom approved except one, who called a policeman. I did not pay much attention to the error in your magazine until recently, when rumors and stories have been circulated about me as a prowler in the dark, and with many versions. Most of them are humorous, but some are malicious, and they are very discreditable to me, so won't you please make the proper notice of correction in TIME. Please say that the chiseling off of the error on the Poe monument was done by Edmond Fontaine...