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Black Dahlia E Short — Part 1
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3 Reporters Trace Victim's Movemren
_ She was described in the FBI files as 5 feat
6 inches tall, 121 pounds in weight, with brown
hair and green eyes, medium build and fair. com~
plexion.
xaminer reporters were immediatel sent to
Santa Barbara and Camp Cooke to trace back on
the girl’s movements and to-trace. her to this city.
The identification by the Examiner came as
the first big break in the investigation of the crime .
which shook the city.
e girl’s body, severed at the waist, was
found Wednesday morning in a vacant lot on
orton. avenue between 39th street and Coliseum |,
agenue, She had been dead about 10 hours at the |
ti e e she was found. The slayer had killed her else- .
|
where and then placed the body
-In plain view. It was only a few
he feet from the sidewajk.
stains which police chemists were!
analyzing, *.
A car had been seen at thp
Norton avenue site about |
time Miss Shori’s mutilated
body was deposited there. This
car and French's police said, were
similaryin description.
SISTER LOCATED—
‘| Afters cqntact had been made
with Mrs. Short in MassacHlusetts,
lthe investigation swung to
Berkeley.. There a sister of the
slain girl, Mrs. A. C. West, lives
Efforts’ to: solve, the grime had
been blocked all Wednesday night
by Jack of identification of the
body and police were practically
.at a standstill in the case until
the Examiner learned the vic-
tim’s identity. °* i .
One suspect—Ceci il French of
Bakersfield—was in “custody.
CAR CLEW——
Arrested after he had been ac-
cused of molesting women at the
bus depot, he revealed he owned
a car which later proved it might
_ be a connecting link to the Short
> glaying.
The back seat was removed.
On otherepieistery there wasj
'y
at 2614 Warring street.
It was possible, investigators
believed, Mrs. West would know
something about Elizabet Ss
movements. :
Late last night, the clerk. pf
the North .Orange drive hoi
told how Miss Short, who hat
live@there with two other girls,
often “ran behind in her. rent.”
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