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Roy E. Prout |
Roy Esson Prout, 82, died Nov. 11 in Milton Hospital. Born in Boston, he lived in Dorchester for many years before settling in Milton. At 17, he left high school and volunteered for service in the Navy, seeing action in the Pacific Theater during World War II. During the Korean War, he was recalled to active duty and assigned to the Boston Navy base where he spent some of his tour serving on the USS Constitution. Mr. Prout joined the Boston Police Department as an officer in 1958. In his first few years he served as a patrol officer in Jamaica Plan, then with the mounted unit and bank robbery unit before becoming a detective. He was assigned to the Suffolk County district attorney’s office for most of his career where he focused on the investigation of white-collar crime and public corruption cases. He held the distinction of having served under three different district attorneys: Garrett Byrne, Newman Flanagan and Ralph Martin. Mr. Prout was once featured on the television program “60 Minutes,” being interviewed in regard to his arrest of a suspect connected to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery. In that interview, commentator Morley Safer referred to Mr. Prout as “a bloodhound of a detective.” He was noted for keeping meticulous handwritten notes and detailed records of all his cases. He retired in 1993. Mr. Prout was one of the original members of the Boston Police Detectives’ Benevolent Society and served as their treasurer for several years. He was a longtime member of the St. Paul’s – Algonquin Masonic Lodge in Braintree, the American Legion and the VFW. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Wanda (Wypych) Prout; his children, Roy Alan Prout and his wife, Catherine, of Readville, and Stephen Gawlinski and his wife, Frances, of Florida; seven grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. He was the father of the late Stanley Gawlinski, and brother of the late James H. Prout and Kathleen Little. A funeral service was held Nov. 15 in the Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home. Burial was in Milton Cemetery. |
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