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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
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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
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may brand for their own pro
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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
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