Word: prowler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accountants summed up the estate of Sportsman William Woodward Jr., accidentally shot to death 14 months ago by his wife Ann in her belief that he was a prowler (TIME, Nov. 7, 1955 et seq.). Inheritance taxes will gobble more than $6,000,000 of his net estate of $10,186,299. Ann was left the life income from a $1,300,000 trust; upon her death, their two sons are to get her trust principal...
...mysterious prowler of Bank Street struck again late Saturday night, his fifth attack on student cars this semester, according to the mechanic at Art Trump's garage. Other garages reported that they had been called to repair damaged cars on Bank Street at least once or twice this spring...
Borley's haunts included a tall stranger in a top hat who paid bedside calls on unsuspecting parlor maids, an aged family retainer long since dead, a lurking prowler who went without a hat and without a head as well, a phantom coach that rolled wildly through the front yard behind a brace of phantom horses. Also in the ghostly cast: a wistfully mourning lady variously identified as 1) Arabella Waldegrave, daughter of a 17th century local lord, 2) an English nun whose weakness for a monk in a monastery, said to have occupied the rectory site...
...police, who also feel the lure of publicity, questioned all of the 58 guests at a party given the night before the killing by Mrs. George F. Baker in honor of the Duchess of Windsor. They did not learn much. Both the Woodwards had seemed overly excited about the prowler. The party had been decorous. Woodward, chemical analysis showed, had no more than two drinks. (Ann rarely took a drink.) He had sat next to Brenda Frazier Kelly and had danced the last dance with Laddie Sanford's wife, Mary Duncan Sanford, both longtime acquaintances. The Duchess of Windsor...
...Woodward's story was that, hearing a noise, she picked up the loaded shotgun kept in her room because of the prowler and fired both 'barrels across the hallway between her and her husband's bedrooms. One of the charges took Bill Woodward square in the face. The mystery was how a woman supposedly practiced in the use of firearms could unknow ingly shoot her husband at 10 ft. But former hunting companions were not surprised. One said that Ann, who seemed to take joy in hunting, always seemed to be looking one way and shooting another...