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10 B WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 16, 1963 ' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Boston's Strangler Described as Young And Business-Like By CARL COBB ' Boston -AITO- He has honey colored hair. He Is tall, well spoken and business-like. He knocks on an apartment door and tells the woman who answers he's here to do the painting. If she says no, he starts "talking funny." That is the profile of young man who homicide do- tectives believe may have slain seven possibly nine women in Boston and It sprawling suburbs since last June 14. His image haunts thousands of other women living alone behind double-bolted doors, He's known, for lack of bet ter identification, as "the strangler." Clues Meager . The description of the would-be housepainter wa given to police by Mrs. Mar- cells WawrzinaK-ljuma, a au year old housewife and a neighbor of victim No. 7. It is one of few tangible clues In the search for a man, pos sibly men, whose series of strangllngs and rapes have turned Boston into a city of fear. There's been a run on door locks, bedside telephones and small pistols, Meter readers, bill collec tors and door-to-door sales men have been turned away from hundreds of bolted, un- onened doors. But the garrot ings continued and police search without a serious sus pect for a killer reminiscent of Britain's Jack the Ripper or, more recently, John Cris- tie who strangiea nis victims and plastered them into the walls of his fiat. Marcella Wawrzinak-Lulka lives next door to the Back Bay area apartment where So phie Clark, 21, was raped and strangled with her stocking and petticoat Dec. 5. That day, Marcella said, she heard a knock on the door of her own second-floor suite. She opened it and a man pushed past her. "I'm Thompson," he said. "I'm here to do the painting." . Mrs. Wawrzinak-Lulka in sisted she didn't want any painting done. She said the man "started talking funny and said how tall I am and what a good model I'd make." She told the man she'd have to talk to her husband in the next room and left him stand ing alone by the door. When she returned, he had gone. ' Mrs. Wawrzinak-Lulka said the self-styled housepainter who called himself Thompson looked like a student, "He was very polito and business-like at first," she said. "If I ever see him again, I will certainly recognize him." Cases Similar The first seven cases show ed remarkable similarities. In each, the killer was admitted to the apartment or walked Jn through open or unlocked doors. There was no serious struggle, sometimes apparent ly none at all. , The killer used a stocking or another article of clothing to strangle five of the women. Once he used his bare hands; one a pillow case, At least four of the victims had been raped. Except for Miss Clark, the first seven victims were older women between 55 and 75 suggesting perhaps that the killer had a "mother hatred'' complex. Miss Clark's death weak ened that theory, but It fit a pattern In another way. Four of the first seven victims were hospital workers and a fifth frequently visited relatives at a 'hospital- near her home. Miss Clark attended a school for medical assistants and worked In a hospital. Other than Miss Clark, who I learning where and how the had two roommates, all of the victims lived, first seven victims lived alone. The eighth strangling was This suggested to police that similar to the first seven but the kilter had some way of police have reason to think It may have been staged to look like the work of "the strangler." The ninth victim, a 16-year-old girl, was stran gled Jan. 5 while en route home from an early evening shopping , trip in this .city's Roxbury district. Her death is believed to be unrelated to the others. STRIKE PROMPTS BILL Washington - IUPD - Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen (IU.) Monday intro duced a bill that would make arbitration of maritime strikes compulsory. LATE FOR CEREMONY London -(UPD- The Welsh Guards band was 10 minutes late this week for the chang ing of the guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Bands men had to thaw 30 brass in struments which had frozen. PLANTS MODERNIZE , New York iUPD - Modern ization and expansion costs for plants and facilities of H'e nation's steel industry ver approximately $925 million in 1962, according to the Ameri can Iron and Steel Institute. 4,720 Log Brands Are Still Active ' Salem-Of the nearly 10,000 log brands registered since the Inception of the act in 1943, 4,720 are currently active, ac cording to the state depart ment of forestry. These were cither renewed between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 1961, for a five- year period or registered thereafter. Of the remaining delinquent brands a large number were abandoned lust year making available quite a choice selection. The log branding act pro vides that every person who transports raw forest prod ducts in western Oregon by motor vehicle or rail, or who dumps such products Into any waters of the stale, must mark or brand the logs or oilier products. Registration of the brands with the slHtc forestry department Is required. Operators hauling on pri vate roads arc exempt, hut may brand for their own pro tection. The branding of for est products also is optional for operators hauling cast of j the Cascade mountains. . . Operators desiring a brand are asked to submit two or more diagrams of their choice to the state forester's office, post office, box 2289, Salem. Diagrams are then checked against brands previously reg istered for availability. Upon approval of the diagram, the j state forester furnishes regis-1 tration application forms to I the operator. I i HOLLAND I- KITCHEN - &m all III' I III H fir f I I z v f s 1 1 a Mill Hllli .., t. 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