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Girl Girl Mutilated by LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 (CTPS)—Fingerprints have ‘iden-| tified the: attractive victim: of a brutal. sex-fiend murder found. Wednesday’ in a vacant lot in West Los Angéles as Elizabeth Short, 22, of Santa Barbara, the FBI said today. The identification was made as scores of persons telephoned and visited ‘the homicide detail in: City Hall, claiming the girl to be a, rela- tivé or frierid. Former Army Employe The victim had been employed i 1943 at Camp Cooke, Calif. as ibe of soldiers. a@ post exchange clerk. At the time.she went to work at the army post; 100 miles north of here, her fingerprints were taken ‘and forwarded to Washington, a routine: wartime procedure with all civilian employes at military bases: " One youth was questioned at ity Hall as a possible suspect in hée-sadistic slaying, while in ‘the coroner’s office autopsy physi-, eians announced that Miss Short: 7 ammerampees om Snmemmegn | their opinion, $10,000 Reward Planned So shocked by the details of ‘the -butcher-murder were city of. | ficials that a $10;000 reward was planned for the capture of the slayer, City Councilman Lloyd G. Davis said he would ask.the post- ing of the teward atthe earliest opportunity. Picked: tip. by officers’ early to- day at _a-bus depot, Cecil French, 23,' of Bakersfield, was. booked on suspicion of 2 morals offense ‘and questioned. concerning possible im-: Plication in Miss. Short’s murder. ‘French, said officers, was seen molesting women in the vicinity-of the depot. His automobile, parked nearby, was shy a back seat. French told police that he had re- moved the ‘seat ‘to carry some ma- chinery. He was not considered a “hot” suspect in the case. ‘Santa Barbara police -reveale ral Miss Short was arreste jthere in September 1943, whe ‘sh was seen drinking with an : iclesmed one of the soldiers ‘as her husband. died of hemorrhage and shock.» The young woman’s mouth: was} slit with a knife three inches on each side ‘while she was still-alive, the doctors said. This plus a con- cussion of the brain induced by blows . on the head caused her déath,, ‘they stated. Other mutila- tion a the: ‘body, which was foun . rhad, # WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD Page Cu TR half and: otherwise sues: _ crated, occurred after death ‘in "| A minor; she. Our. Pennington ~~ Op Mr. Quizn Tamf Mr. Nease f Miss Gandy 4" ue tay