Furniture assemblers put together individual pieces to form partial or complete items of furniture.

Budzinski, now a bicycle and furniture assembler at a department store, said Murphy preyed on him during the 1960s.

Eric Bristow was knocked out of the British Darts Open in London last night by Charlie Holdaway, a 28-year-old furniture assembler from Isleworth, Middlesex.

"It's scary; it's like unemployed people are coming out of the sky, there are so many of them," said Arlene Morin, who had been a furniture assembler at Temple Stuart for 17 years in this city of 20,000 people in north-central Massachusetts.