Crossword-Solution: WOOLCOTT 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

FRANCIS WOOLCOTT'S NIGHT-RIDERS In Copake, New York, among the Berkshire Hills, less than a century ago, lived Francis Woolcott, a dark, tall man, with protruding teeth, whose sinister laugh used to give his neighbors a creep along their spines.

These night-riders met Woolcott in a grove of ash and chestnut trees, each furnished with a stolen bundle of oat straw, and these bundles Woolcott changed to black horses when the night had grown dark enough not to let the way of the change be seen.

There was a burst of purple flame at the window, a frightful peal, a smell of sulphur, and Woolcott was dead.

WEIMER.] [Illustration: JO LU WOOLCOTT.] This annual increase in the value of new land is known as its "unearned increment." This unearned increment is now accruing to the Board on every acre that has been purchased.

Said Alexander Woolcott in the _New York Times_ with reference to those who produced the play: "They have acquired an actor, one who has it in him to invoke the pity and the terror and the indescribable foreboding which are part of the secret of 'The Emperor Jones.'" Kenneth MacGowan wrote in the _Globe_; "Gilpin's is a sustained and splendid piece of acting.