Letters: Dec. 8, 1930

No Prowler

Sirs: Two months ago, a friend called my attention to the notice in your magazine about my action in chiseling off the offending letter "s" from the Poe monument in Wyman Park Baltimore (TIME, June 16). The statement that I did the work under cover of darkness is false, as I did it an 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...

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