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+ serene ? __. __BrOwh: said an iInquese>vouids erase "He held Satirday. toe owing his second lie detec-. t, Manley was returned to @ jan euding further questioning. In ack : Dail iq. Throughout the test, Harriet, 22, Maniey’s attractive blond wife,-'sat in police headquarters with William Morris Manley, his Horr or-Murder 5 ; , ae insisted’ Manley was inno- 4 : cent, a good husband and incap- able of such a crime. nie permet iam 20 (UP). "Manley was permitted to see his ober ed” Mauiley, -25,was wife briefly before being booked reléased by authorities today after and ‘they tearfully embraced. tw6-lie detector tests failed to.link; Capt. Donohoe permitted them to be together for five minutes. him with the mutilation murder “hey were married 15 months of Elizabeth Short, 22, “The: Black ago when Manley was discharged Dahlia.” '.| from. the army, and are the par- The handsome former*.army| ents of a-four-months-old ‘son. usicians willingly submitted to Admits Knowing Girl ine tests, declaring he had noth-. ; Hy Manley admitted knowing Miss @°t0 do with the murder. His. wife and father both said he was Bhort for here trom’ San Diews at home the night Miss Short! January 9, but denied seeing her was'siain and her mutilated body after that, jred sal ta’ dumped in e red-haired salesman sai mp a. vacant lot. he picked up Miss Short outside No Suspects Left The release of -Manley: left 4 Deceiiber 15 and dated her sev- eral times thereafter when in. San Diego on. business. “I left her on January 9 about 6:30 p.m. in a. hotel lobby’ and I haven't seen her | ‘since, | he said. ; Police arrested Manley. Jas plght at the pome of a friend -chemist, put him through a series| Rete. He had just returned from of tests to learn whether his story) 4 ‘business trip to San Francisco. Were: true. ‘He was held\ ona}, A widespread search had started charge of syspicion of murder. for him after witnesses. told of. Following’ the test, Police Capt.|{Miss Short’s acquaintance wit Donohoe said’ Manley’s reactions |f® ted-haired man. Officers woul still were being checked. He ad-|jMot disclose how they locatec mitted,, however, that the second| Maniey. — test was “no more conclusive” ——— than: the first. ‘Manley voluntarily submitted j declaring. he had no. connection with her death. He said he had had. a flirtation with the black- haired girl whose bisected ‘body was found here last Wednesday. But, he had not harmed her in the slightest, he insisted. While Manley was in the crime laboratory, Mrs. Phoebe May Short. of Medford, Mass., Miss Short’s mother, returned ine Berkeley, Calif., and visited tht ’ coroner’s. office, Despite the plea of Corone: Brown that it was necessary for member ‘of the dead girl’s famil: to identify the body, rieither Mrs. Short'nor Mrs. Virginia West, her other daughter, -would view it. “J Can’t Do It” oP et, -_ “T just can’t do it,” Mrs. Short sobbed. “It would be too much. for me to-do. You can’t expect me, { her mother, to look at her now.” Coroner Brown said he would , attempt to geb the girl’s father, Cleo Short, estranged from his wife, to servé as identification itness. = ‘. witness. | eee ice without a suspect in the fiv ; day-old case. He was brovght i for questioning late- last.’ nig: after having been ‘sought sincb last Thursday. Manley spent nearly, two- hours’ in the police crime detection lab- oratory while Ray Pinker, police [ht hey WASHINGTON TIMES ~HERALD Page b a bus station at-San Diego oni’ ye Mr. Tolson Mr. B. A. Tamm _ Mr. Clegg Mr. Goffey Mr. Glevin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy —WW Mr. Carson Mr. Egan Mr. Hendon Mr. Pennington __. Mr. Quinn Tamm _ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy an ———