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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...
With the FBI on the case, authorities traced Miller to his mother's home in Soperton, Ga. There, four days after the crime, FBI men and the county sheriff found him and Rosalie. Miller, who had shaved off his mustache, was hiding under some burlap in the back of a pickup truck. He denied all charges, insisted that he had left Connecticut because work there had "played out." At week's end, Westport police went to Georgia to pick...
...Foundation. After Governor Talmadge vetoed further appropriations, the Chemical Foundation took up the slack. By 1933, as director of the Pulp & Paper Laboratory of the Industrial Committee of Savannah, Inc., Chemist Herty succeeded in making enough pine-pulp paper for one run of a little Georgia weekly called the Soperton News. Later that year a group of nine Georgia dailies simultaneously ran off one day's edition on all-Georgia newsprint. The newspapers paid freight to and from Canada on 25 tons of local pine pulp to be manufactured there on high-speed paper machines...
...Georgia, on the road between Swainsboro and Soperton, a small car bounced along, one night last week. Three men with white sacks over their heads stopped that car, dragged its driver from the wheel, beat him into insensibility with stout pine boards. He, Editor H. M. Flanders of the Soperton News, had written an editorial attacking bootleggers. Several years ago, he had been shot and wounded for a similar editorial...
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