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“Te THE WASHINGTON POST one Saturday, Janua 1, :1947 Police Seek Mad Pervert In Girl’s Death Los Angeles, Jan. 17 (@).—The Mutilation slayer ‘of attractive 22- year-old Elizabeth Short, whose prutal butchery was described by & police psychiatrist as. that of a sex-perverted madman, was being sought on a Nationwide scale to- day, with authorities trying par- ticularly to locate her several “boy friends.” “Her suitors were many, ‘said Police Capt. Loren Q. Martin of Long Beach, where the girl lived until recently. He added that to hahgers-on at a neighborhood drug store near where she lived she was Known as “The Black Dahlia,” for her raven-hair and the jet black elothing which she usually wore. When her mutilated, bisected body was found in a vacant lot Wednesday morning, her jet hair had been hennaed and was just beginning to grow out in its nat- ural color. Seek Army Lieutenant Police would particularly like to question an unidentified Army lieutenant, described as “tall and haridsome,” whom Miss Short al- legedly told friends she intended to marry. She also was frequently visited at her Long Beach hotel by a’ Navy man, Martin said, and in Los Angeles, Policewoman Myrl McBride asserted -Miss: Short once asked her for protection from a discharged Matine whom the girl described as “insanely jealous.” Martin said she also reportedly had a number of other suitors. Miss Short, native of Hyde Park, Mass., came here from Medford, in the same State, about four years ago for her health, police were in- formed. Shortly afterward she took a clerk’s job in the post exchange at Camp Cooke, near Santa Barbara, where, said Ber former boss, Mrs. Inez Keeling, she at first was shy and bashful and never dated the soldiers. A Model Employe ; At that time, Mrs. Keeling told police, she was a model employe in all respects, not smoking and seldom drinking. A few months later, said Mrs. Keeling, she began to go out-with the soldiers several tithes a week, Idetitification was made through fingerprints on record with the FBI, both as 4 result of her Army post job. and through her arrest in 1943 vas a juvenile delinquent. . She is the daughter of Mrs.. ‘Phoebe M. Short, Medford, Mass. Dr. Paul.de Biver, poljespeyeni- “tristy waid her murder was plainly Bittchered Girl Was Engaged — anette Associated Press WIREPHOTO ELIZABETH SHORT of Medford, Mass., 22-year-old victim of a Los Angeles butcher- slaying, had planned to wed an unknown Army Air Force lieu- tenant undergoing hospitaliza- tion, a friend of the slain girl said yesterday. Mrs. Marjorie Graham of Medford, said Miss Short told her of wedding plans’ 3 2 last October, when they were | sharing a hotel ‘room in Holly- wood the work of a sex maniac mani- festing “the sadistic component of a sado-masochist complex.” (In Medford, Mass., Mrs. Phoebe M. Short, mother of five daughters, said she would bring the slain girl’s body home for burial. said that Betiy told her in a letter two weeks ago that:she had been doing “bit parts” in motion pic- tures until she took employment in avy hospital at San Djpget—== She Mr. Tolson Mr. E. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg —_ Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols hfe iz. Rosen racy Mr. Carson_ Mr. Egan Mr. Gurnea Mr. Harbo_ Mr. Hendon Mr. Jones Mr. Leonard Mr. Pennington _ Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy. : This is a clipping from. the NETOAMS dated: tf 2) ¥7 Page_/6 _