Word: westporters
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...newspapers, the procedures of life change. Tired men, sick of the human race after a long, gabby day at the office, cannot escape into the life story of Y. A. Tittle or the political perils of Harold Macmillan, but must go on talking to strangers all the way to Westport...
...Veterans Day last week, the sun had risen to brighten woodsy Westport, in Connecticut's suburban Fairfield County. It was a holiday for schoolchildren and some of their parents. At 9 o'clock in the morning, Westport looked just like the sort of place people think of when they want to epitomize a sophisticated, upper-middle-income suburban community. Manhattan is only 52 miles away, but Westport. with its carefully tended property and its comfortable homes, seems impervious to the cacophony of city life...
...Textile Designer Pierre Sillan had left his $75,000 Westport home for his Manhattan office. His two sons were not at home; one was with the armed forces in Germany, the other at college. His 14-year-old daughter Gail got out of bed, put on a bed jacket and started downstairs. Suddenly, a tall, mustached Negro grabbed her, looped a cord round her neck, dragged her back into her bedroom, locked the door and began choking her. She fainted, and when she awoke, she heard noises downstairs. Rushing into the living room, she found the man strangling her mother...
Played Out. The terror and tragedy that had struck the Sillan household left Westport in shock. Householders locked doors, double-checked windows and waited in dark apprehension, as if time itself had been suspended. The police, meanwhile, worked methodically and got on the trail fast. They discovered that a handyman named Harlis Miller, 31, had not reported for work the day following the crime; he had disappeared with his common-law wife Rosalie. He fitted Gail's description of a handyman she had seen working in the neighborhood; he had worked once at the Sillan place...
...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...