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...pack of eight Alsatian hounds that guard the 1,000-acre Sutton Place estate near London of Last Billionaire Jean Paul Getty, 69. normally content themselves with 3 Ibs. of horsemeat apiece each day. spiced with an occasional hunk of prowler. Notices about the property warn: "Danger. Guard Dog-Keep Away. This dog is trained to treat all strangers as enemies. Do not touch." All of which is unsettling enough without one of Getty's pets hopping the fence into someone else's land. As Getty and a few friends were out for a stroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 21, 1962 | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...prowler escaped from McIntyre House at Radcliffe last night, carrying with him about $200 worth of valuables. The thief is believed to have left the house by the firescape shortly after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robber Raids 'Cliffe; Escapes With Plunder | 1/12/1961 | See Source »

About 11 o'clock one of McIntyre's residents discovered the intruder. She heard a sound outside her room and opened the door. When she saw the prowler, who was "in a state of undress," she slammed the door. The prowler then left by the firescape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robber Raids 'Cliffe; Escapes With Plunder | 1/12/1961 | See Source »

...rooms in McIntyre have locks on the fire escape windows, and "everyone knows about them except the girls whose rooms he entered," reported one of the residents. There are no locks on the door to the rooms, however, so the prowler had free access within the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robber Raids 'Cliffe; Escapes With Plunder | 1/12/1961 | See Source »

Sifting the Evidence. In Salt Lake City, summoned by Mrs. Connie Johnson to catch a prowler, police fired two tear gas shells into her attic, set the whole second story afire, after inspection of the charred wreckage reported: "No prowler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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