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...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...
...most beautiful of illicit love tragedies.'' But under Publisher Fox's energetic direction the Gazette became not only a famed arbiter and promoter of sporting events, but a sensational forerunner of today's tabloids. The No. 1 writer was Samuel A. Mackeever who, as "Paul Prowler" and "The Old Rounder," showed the way for modern broadway colyumists. In its new pink dress, with full page drawings of dashing males cavorting with broad-hipped, big-bosomed females, the Gazette reached close to 400,000 circulation, brought its owner nearly $3,000,000. (At his death, November...