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LOS ANGELES, Jon: ‘murder of: Elizabeth ‘Short, mitted to the tests, declarin the murder. the night Miss Short was in a vacant, lot. IDENTIFIES ‘RED’ Ss’ PHOTO. old case. Manley spent nearly two hours while police chemist Ray Pinker ‘ put him n through a series of tests Willem Sullivan, railway express. clerk af Union Station, Los An- géle ied is same one he views in photo of “Red” Manley. : (itternational SOUNDphoto) la 20 (UP)—.Robert ‘ (Rea) Manley, 25, was ‘released. by authorities today after two lie detector tests failed to link him with: the. mutilation | His wife and father both said he was, at home: Release of Manley left police. without a suspect in the five- day-. ak He was brought in for questioning late last night’ ‘after | § having been sought since last Thursday. . in the crime detection laboratories | * | office. says man he«saw' with Elizabeth Shott.24 hours before she Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr, Mr. Mr. Tolson _ BE. A. Tamm _ Clegg Coffey . Glavin Ladd Nichols Rosen Tracy Carson Egan Hendon Pennington Mr. Quinn Tamm _ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy Se enataiaaaed fi 22, “the Black .Dahlia.”-, The handsome former “Army” musician willingly sub- MOTHER WON’ T VIEW BODY. g he had nothing to do with}: slain and her body “dumped LI SRE REN : to learn if his story were true. y F _ Manley said he had had a fiir: |. tation with the black-haired girl) 1: 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, Miss Short’s mother; ' ‘Mrs. Phoebe May’ Short, of Med. ‘ford, Mass., returned from Berke- ae ley, Cal., and visited the coroner's tee Despite. the plea of Coronér | fees Ben Brown that it was necessary |. for a member of the dead girl's |: |jfamily to identify the- body, neither. Mrs. Short nor her other, daughter, Mrs. . Virginia’ West); ‘would view it. ‘ ' “f just can’t do it; ” Wirs. © " Short: sobbed.. “Tt would, be too: ' Continued on on Page 8 Elizabeth Short Neither her mother, Mrs. Phoebe + 'Short,-nor her sister, Mrs. West, would view. body» of the mul. ‘tilated: girl yesterday. . {International Photo) ~ « New York Daily Mirror Page a