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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.”