The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-16

pG0O4c%1Atys Cdb1S41CQ LII HIS lG$ hat his progress to the electric chair would be swift.
 Gallaaher's promise was partly torfOr the benefit of several thou sand men who were in the streets of this village and who helped police search for the body of one of the victims through most of the night. State police maintained a heavy guard over Haight, who was charged with murder and Kidnapping.
 Bodies Are Found
 The body of Helen Lynch, 8, was found at a. m. in the Kensico res ervoir, which is part of the New York City water system. The head had been crushed by an automobile wheel and her arms and legs were bound. Haight had sat in a parked police automobile while volunteers dragged the reservoir, making wise cracks to his guards.
 Later yesterday afternoon, the body of Helen's sister, Margaret, 2, was found floating in a shallow creek several miles away. Her ankles were bound ard the side of her head had been crushed.
 Between the finding of the bodies, police arrested Haight in the two room shack near Stamford, Conn.,, in which he lived with his father and brother Though he mad never been arrested before, several persons had been sufficiently impressed by the nature of casual conversations they had had with him recently to direct police to him. Confronted by circumstaEtial evidence, Haight readily confessed and directed au- thorities to Heien's body.
 Haight had been employed, since his failure 10 complete elementary school, by the city of Stamford to cut grass at playgrounds and other municipal property and do odd jobs. He was known in this New York city suburban area on the New York Connecticut border as an amiable, dull-witted youth.
 Stole Wagon in Stamford Before dawn Monday, he stole Ford station wagon from the drive way of the home of Cornell Harra, 8 New York City business man who lives at Stamford. Shortly after, Mrs. Elrick B. Davis, New Canaan and formerly of Cleveland, having drivGn her husband to the Stam- ford railroad station, was return ing home when the station wagon, driven by Haight, passed her sev- eral times, and then stopped in front of her.
 Haight got out and advanced to- ward her.
 What do you want?" she asked.
 T want you," he replied. leering at her.
 Mrs. Davis, a noted kennel owner, whose husband was former Cleve- land book reviewer, said T was scared to death. For the first time in my life I was smart. I locked the car doors from the inside and told him my dog was a trained dog which would go after him. I got rid of him ard he drove of"
 Mrs. Davis boxer dog, powerful animal, was in the seat beside her When Haight saw the animal he got back into his car and drove of.
 Another Girl Escapes
 Late Monday afternoon, Doris Ledwin, is, was walking along the Stamford road near Bedford Hills when a station wagon stopped alongside her. Haight leaned out, winking and leering, and asked the way to Stamford. She said she didn't know and walked on. Haight drove on for a hundred yards, turned the car around and stopped alongside her again. smirking. She ignored him and he turned the machine to accost her in the same way. This was repeated five times, until Miss Ledwin reached the protection of the town.
 Haight met the little Lynch girls next.
 Their father, Patrick Lynch, 46, is a salesman for the Donald Brush Company, of Camden, N. J. Their mother has spent most of the last six years in GrasSlands Hospital at Eastview, N. Y., bedridden with tu- berculoSis. There are two older girls who live with relatives. With the aid of neighbors and friends, Lynch had managed to keep the two young ones with him.
 Late Monday afternoon. they left the Lynch cottage to walk the mile to this village to meet Daddy"