The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-16

Several merchants remembered See- ing them looking into their window: as they often did while waiting fol Daddy" They also went to the post office to inquire for Daddy's mail.
 A station wagon drove slowly into the village street. It stopped along side the children, there was short conversation with the driver. They got in. This was observed by several persons. That was the last seen of the girls until their bodies were found.
 Tells What Happened
 Haight early today, speaking mat ter-of- of-factly as though he felt his behavior should occasion no com ment, told what happened thereaf- ter.
 He invited the children to ride with him to their home. As soon as he was outside the village, he bound and gagged both, using a length of dirty awning cord which, he ad- mitted, he had carried around all day with that in mind. Then he drove to lonely Long Ridge road where he stopped the car and raped both.
 DispOses of Bodies
 Then he drove back through the town with the bound and gagged girls on the floor of the station wagon and when he reached bridge which crosses Beaver Dam Brook, he tried to throw Margaret from the car into the shallow stream. At this point, she was alive. She struck the bridge rail, and fell on the pavement. Haight said he be- heved this fall killed her.
 He stopped the car and put Mar garet's body back in alongside her sister and drove back to the village where he parked and went into a stationery store and bought pack age of razor blades, with the in- tention, he said, of mutilating Mar garet's body. Driving back to the bridge, he slashed and jabbed her with knife and threw the body into the brook.
 Helen, bound and gagged, still was on the floor of the station wagon. He drove to a lonely road near Armonk village, where he lifted her out and flung her onto the road. He kicked her until her head was pressed against the left rear wheel of the car. He then drove the car back and forth several times. He put the body back into the car and drove to the main highway, then to a bridge over one of the large creeks feeding into Kensico Reservoir = a distance of several miles. There he stopped and threw the body in,
 Helen's body also was mutilated, apparently by knife. The razor blades were found in their un- opened package. Haight insisted that both girls were dead when they were jabbed and slashed. Authori- ties doubted it.
 Cite Driver In Stamford
 It was then almost g o'clock and dark. Haight drove 12 miles to Stamford where he had a dinner of hamburgers and coffee at a road side restaurant where he was known. He boasted to the waiter that he had been chased by the police. The waiter asked what he had been driving. "a station wagon" he said. He then drove toward the parental shack, which is several miles north of Stamford. Abandoning the stolen station wagon a mile or so away, he walked the rest of the way and, he assured police early today, went to bed to sleep soundly.
 Yesterday morning he went to work as usual. Meanwhile, a search for the Lynch children was getting under way. Witnesses had seen them climb into the station wagon which, having chocolate -colored fenders,, is distinctive. Mrs. Davies and Miss Ledwin came forward with their stories. By noon, authorities an- nounced that they were looking for a sex criminal. At 4 p. m. Mar garet's body was found. A state policeman dropped into the roadside restaurant for coffee and told the waiter about it. The waiter said he had an idea who had been re- sponsible. The policeman men, toned the station wagon and the waiter said, this man said he was driving a station wagon Monday night"