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‘Suspect Freed \,, Continued from Page 3 much for me fo do. You can’t expect me, her mother, to look at her now.” Brown said he would attempt to get the girl's father, Cleo i Short, estranged from his wife, to serve -as identification witness. Brown said an inquest would be held Saturday. Throughout the test, Manley’s attractive blonde wife, Harriet, 22, sat in police headquarters with his father, William Morris Manley. Both insisted he was in- nocent, a good husband and in- capable of such a crime. Manley was permitted ta see his wife for five minutes before being booked and they tearfully embraced. They were married 15 montps ago when Manley was discharg?d om the Army, and. are e arents of a four-month-old s Seized After Hunt | EEE et Police arrested Manley last night at the home of a friend here, He had just returned from a business trip to San Francisco. A widespread search had started for him after witnesses told of Miss Short’s acquaintance with a red-haired man. Officers woulda ~ not disclose how they located Manley. , The suspect, who lives with his family at suburban South Gate, said he met Miss Short Dec. 15, a month. before her mutilated body was found. She was standing outside a bus station at San Diego when Manley, there on a business trip, drove by. “She was such a pretty girl that E stopped and raked up a conversation with her,” he said. He said he had a date with her that night and “kissed her a few times—but that’s all.” : He said he “just ran into her” again in January when she had “bad scratches on both her arms above the elbows on the outside.” He said she blamed a “jealous” boy friend for the scratches. He drove her here from San Diego Jan. 9 after they spent the night together at a hotel—the last he saw of her, he said. He w supposed to meet her sister they, e added. ° » | “But the sister wasn’t there, X left her at 6:30 in the eve ning—and that’s the last Ive Seen of poor Beth,” he con- ' chided.