Crime: The Phantom Strangler

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Until last week, there had been no stranglings for two months, and Bostonians could again begin to believe that theirs was a rather normal city. Both New York and Los Angeles had had nine stranglings since last summer; Chicago, which seems to go in more for bullets, had had none. But the death of Bessie Goldberg brought fear back to Boston. At week's end, a Negro handyman was arrested and held on suspicion of her strangling. And Bostonians could only wait and wonder whether he had killed nine, or fewer, or none.