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Taken scene by scene, the film shows matchless artistry. When the handyman Joseph rapes and murders a neighborhood child he encounters in the woods, violence is unearthed with horror, poetry and compassion in one brief shot of snails inching across the dead girl's leg. In another agonizing sequence, the lady of the manor haltingly discusses her frigidity and her husband's unusual demands with an acquisitive young priest who prefers to talk about repairs for the church roof. "1 can only stress that for you there must be no pleasure," he offers distractedly...
Connecticut's Supreme Court of Errors was obviously bothered by the case it was considering. The crime, said Judge John M. Comley speaking for a unanimous bench, was "particularly revolting and atrocious." Yet the conviction of Handyman Harlis Miller, serving a life sentence for the murder of Westport Matron Isabel Sillan, was reversed because it had been obtained with the aid of inadmissible evidence...
After Mrs. Sillan was strangled and her 14-year-old daughter, Gail, was raped, the handyman fled to Soperton, Ga., where he was captured. With Miller safely in jail, a Connecticut county detective and a Westport police sergeant went to Soperton and examined the suspect's car without taking the time or trouble to ask his permission or obtain a search warrant. When the car was brought back to Connecticut, it was examined again-still without a warrant. The upholstery was crawling with samples of Gail Sillan's blood and hair. Despite defense objections, that evidence was admitted...
...father on New Year's Eve, 1944. With only a broken bumper guard as solid evidence, Lumber Merchant Lee, now 51, traced scores of cars, braced dozens of suspects and traveled 100,000 miles before he caught up last summer with Grover Jones, 55, now an Indianapolis handyman. Lee amassed 153 pages of circumstantial evidence, and Jones was indicted for second-degree murder...
...assignment: a condensed-milk plant in Oriente province, where he will oversee 200 to 300 em ployees. The No. 1 man now in control of Cuba's economy seems to be Minister of Industries Che Guevara, 36, who has long been Fidel's all-round handyman...