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_ {Pictures on Page 1.) , ' LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17—A fdotea ror-stricken girl answering her descrip- tion begged a policeman for protection: suitor who kept pretty Elizabetlt“Short |from a “jealous marine’ who threat- : an deadly fear of her TiéWas-Hbihted" ~today as a suspect in her torture- murder. Investigators withheld the man’s name, but said the 22-year-old girl told friends on several r- ~sions she was “deadly afraid of him.” The suitor was desv..Jzed by Dorothy French, with whom Miss Short lived dn San Diego, Calif. She said Elizabeth was “very popu- . Jar” with men and had many dates ‘but often spoke about hiding from a boy friend who frightened her, She left the French home hurriedly for Hollywood: Jan, 8, a week before a frenzied killer hacked and tortured her to death. * On the night she was killed, a ter- — wae: Fook, sag EN . aw aan On . ened to kill her. Policewoman Myrtle McBride said the girl spoke of meeting*a bus from San Diego. She was“sobbing’ and hys- terical from fear. The next morning Miss Short’s body, cut in two and savagely mutilated, was found in a Lovers’ Lane vacant lot, It was identified last nicht by fingel: prints in FBI files, {e) said she apparently had hung nude by her feet during hours of tor- ture before she died of shock and hemorrhage. Search for the fiendish killer cen- tered around a Main-st cafe where the girl told ‘Miss McBride she had run into her former boy friend, who threatened to “kill her if he-ever found her with another man.” Miss. McBride accompanied the girl to the bar where the girl talked to two men and a woman for a.few minutes, her to go home. “I can’t,” Elizabeth said. “I’m wait- iig for someone whose bus is due in.at 730. ” The 10:30 bus comes from San Diego, here she was believed to have been ployed at the naval hospital. ee t i WASHINGTON NEWS Page : eel then left. Miss McBride said she told'| ‘ith a club, causing the-concussion ‘still leaving her conscious. enough i ‘suffer. ‘ -the torso occurred: after death, Mr. Mr. Mr, Mr, Mr. Mr. B.A. . Mr. Clegg é Mr. Coffey. ° Glavin__ + Carson Egan Hendon Pennington - om . ?. Quinn Tanun, _ “WMr, Nease Miss Gandy Torture-Slaying Victim Feared Sadist Suifor | The development was the first clue: in the sadistic slaying, described-by po~.|' lice a sthe most revolting ‘sex crime in years. e FBI sai j 20 been picked up-as 2 juvenile d Ti Santa Barbara, Calif, in 1943, for drinking in a restaurant with’ soldier's}: Policewoman “Mary Unkefer, whd’ ‘cared for her before she was sent*homd’ to her mother, Mrs. Phoebé Short-o: Medford, Mass., described her as “ver good looking and nicely: dressed.” _ The blue-eyed brunet was mutilated , and butchered early Wednesday in a secret hideaway while her ‘thighs,’ wrists and, ankles were. bound ‘with: rope or wire. . Chief Autopsy Surgeon Dr. Frederick Newhbarr listed the cause of -déath. as shock and hemorrhage trom the deep slashes the slayer inflicted. Her mouth ‘was. ripped’ from~ear to | ear -while ‘she was still alive, and Dr. Néwhbair said the agony of that would: bring .on shock, -Then. she apparently | was beaten about the head: and face but He said the hortible mutilation - __. ——— fy . e Ya vr " oy “a4 oy "ashy ~ 4 oo ao ey mn a . at ey ow AN 22 1947 ow JAN md Daan Se taint na ettaeramene OFA sete