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...clock in the morning the prowler. Alfred T. Varney, was halfway through the window of a second story apartment when the occupant, a woman, saw him and started screaming. Stahley and a couple of companions heard him and stepped out to meet him. The thief came tearing down the fire escape and arrived on the ground just in time to run, with all his might, into a terrific punch from Stahley. He immediately fell to the ground and resigned himself to slumber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skip Stahley Fells Burglar With His Powerhouse Punch | 2/2/1938 | See Source »

...Public School Murder was the name of a book which youthful Headmaster Elliott Speer loaned in 1934 to Dean Thomas Edwin Elder of the Mount Hermon School for Boys at Northfield, Mass. In the story, the victim was killed by a prowler who fired a gun through a window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Berkshire Mystery | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...door, pointing a shotgun at him. "Hey, Norton, I want to talk to you," Mr. Norton said the man said. He dodged behind his car, saw his assailant run off across the lawn. A maid employed in a neighboring home confirmed Mr. Norton's story that an armed prowler had fled in an automobile. ''There is no question in, my mind," cried old Mr. Norton. "I know Tom Elder as well as I know a member of my own family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Berkshire Mystery | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...Prowler In North Andover, Mass., awakened by noises at his bedroom window, Salvatore Lamonica, 80, grabbed his gun, fired two shots in the dark at a prowler. Next morning he found his son Paul dead beneath the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 19, 1934 | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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