Someone who kills by strangling.
1 The garrotter had long nails, and was pretty smart at swinging himself over walls.
2 But the public garrotter , he is a bad thing too.
3 Many a man had they seen with his throat in the hands of the public garrotter ; and all had begun with denials who ended thus.
4 Another unpleasant sight which reporters are now spared is the flogging of garrotters .
5 After dinner at the Birds' one evening we fell to talking of garrotters .
6 Garrotters pursued their calling, deterred only by the cat-o'-nine tails, pickpockets abounded and burglaries were common.
7 "Yes," said the Colonel slowly, "but this does not mean common garrotters .
8 No one was stabbed, no one was kidnapped and no one took a wrong turn into the clutches of a gang of garrotters .
9 "A garrotter , most likely," said Smith.
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