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, Robert “Red” ‘pontik * sick inside” when he. learned that Miss “Short’s severed body was found in a _ tector test al midnight. ih the detector test and will be given ? Railway ‘know I’m in the ‘clear. ‘police™today @ tion with murdéred Elizabeth” By United Press » LOS. ANGELES, Jan. 20—A 25-year- old former Army musician, handsome admitted to onth-long gayiyflirta- hort, the “Black Dahlia,” but stéadfastly"ue> nied any connection with her death. Manley, married and the father of a four-months-old boy, said he “turned vacant lot Wednesday. SUFFERING FROM SHOCIC Police booked Manley. on suspicion. : of murder, nevertheless, and said he ° would be questioned further about his | connection with’ the gitl.. Taken into custody afte: a business , trip to San Francisco, Manley, a pipe clamp salesman, consented to a lie de- Police later said Manley was suffer- g from shock and nervous strain, and © e “couldn’t’ establish a good normal” Sother today. “YY go thru with it,” he said. “ZT I have noth- ing to worry about.” - His attractive blond wile, Harriet, eek Dahlia’ Suspect to Face _ , OSS SHORT “Such a pretty girl” Express clerk at Los Angeles station, tentatively identified Manley . as a2 man who accompanied Miss short tothe station the day before she died. ‘Sullivan said she inquired about pro- : 22, sab in another room at police head-| peqire for shipping a trunk and suit- quarters, wringing her hands and lean- ing for support on William Mortis. Manley, the father. ' . Police decided to pick up Manley after linking him to’Miss Short thru evidence uncovered in ati intensive week-end investigation. They declined to say what actually: led them to him. MET AT BUS STOP case to Ketchikan, Alaska. Manley, whojlives with his family at suburban South Gate, said he met Miss Short Dec. 15, a month before her mu- tilated body was found. Shé was stand- ing outside:a bus station at San Diego when Manley, there on @ business trip, drove by. : “ “She was such a pretty -girl‘L stopped - He admitted his association with |and raked ap 4 conversation with her,” Miss Short, 22-year-old beauty whose ‘he said, last hours were linked té a red-haired companion. He said he. brought her here from San Diego Jan. 9, but de- nied seeing: her since that day, wheh he left her at a downtown hotel. Miss Short, wholhad a host of ‘boy riends, because known as the “Black ahlia’? because of -her love for sheer, ack clothing. _ Police said William B&B. Sullivan,’ “pip YOU DO Ir?” “4 He‘said:-he had a date with her that night and, “kissed her a few times—but that’s all.” “ oy . ‘When he last saw her Jan. 9 at the ‘Biltmore ‘Hotel in Los Angeles, he said that she hoped to meet her sister, Mrs, . | Virginia West of Berkeley, Cal. ° “The sister wasn’t there,” he: said, os fe) suns WASHINGTON KRKAR Page , _ ae ‘ if Mr. Nr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. cg Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Miss Gandy Tolson _ EB, A. Tammy Clegg Goffey Glavin Ladd . Nickdlec7_. Rosen vv. Vracy Carson Egan _. Hendon | . Pennington Quinn Tamm Nesse OF. eth TE! Lie. Detec * . *B°30- j on in he i ee bind ‘ left ‘her ab :6:30- in theeevening—ra 4 f io 3 that’s the Jast I’ve seen:-6f:,poor.Beth: - A slendet, néatly-dressed..man, Man~ * ley sald he was at San Francisco on business and did not learn of Miss .Short’s- death ‘until her picture ap-" peared in the papers Priday. “. “J galled my wife,” he said. first thing she asked ‘me—crying—was 4 ‘Did you do it?’ I told“her, ‘Of cowsse not, Honey. What eyer rhade you think He said he first-mét Miss Shott Dec. 15 in San Diego, then “just ran into. her” again in January when she had “pad scratches on both her atms' above the elbows.” He said she blamed a “jealous” Italian boy friend for. the seratches, Ele drove her here from: Sap: Diego Jan, 9-after they spent the night: together at a hotel, he said. © mn No charge was filed dgainst him, ‘but his auto, a black Studebaker—similar to one described: by Miss Short’s frien as belonging to the mysterious ‘tally red-haired companion—was impounded} ‘Manley was picked up at the home ok a fellow salesman. at an mt wf os ¥ b ’ gi gan 301847 eae ” eee SO “Phe . aw] a aedt