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‘Times’ Learns Girl Wrote Mother | She Worked in San Diego Hospital Fingerprints identified the attractive victim o sex-fiend murder found Wednesday in a vacant Tot near we ton Ave, and 39th St, as Elizabeth Short, 22. last known address Santa’Barbara, the Federal Bureau of Investigatio informed The Times yesterday. en ’ The F.B.L. identification was made in Washington, being Bleanedl from the vast fingerprint les of the government agency. yw Visit Ay was made as scores of persons’ Pane cian Ss rcos last ielephoned and visited the homi-;nlght came word that Elizabeth Octoher. Two young men and two young women visited the homicide ‘the girl to be a relative or friend. i Reported in Sau Diego he Times learned last nigh4 ognized the victim'as “Betty” sionally had visited a° Holly-! wood ‘night club about three months ago, The girl, whom ‘mother, Mrs. Phoebe Short o! ‘Bedford, Boston suburb, two Seeks ae0. eine her of Works they descrihed as “very classy,” i eo in a San Diego hospital, told the young people that she! F rom San Diego it was re- was engaged to an Army flyer! ported that the girl had been from “Texas, named “George.”+ jiving ine Pacific Beach, with and that she “could marry him another girl. hom San Diego ‘any time and probably would.”* ae ves were seaking to ques- -according to ir stor, 7 uo fast night about Blizabeth lice, fing to thelr Story 19 Bo Short cise aintances. Mrs. ~ Police also reported that Har- daughter ere te oe ‘at her ‘old F, Costa, 81, and Donald worked at Camp coe ns “Leyes, 22. of 16L N. Orange waitress. as a Drive, last night identified the * , vietim as Elizabeth (Beth) Youth Qnestioned « Short who lived for two months One youth was questioned at! 2 the same hotel at which ti the City Jail as a possible sus- resided and “went around” pect in the sadistic slaying, 1¥0 girl friends they named as While in the Coroner's office au. Margie Graham and Lynn Mar- topsy physicians announced that} Un. Mis3 Short died of hemorrhage; _ The F\B.1. files disclosed the and shock. The young womai'’s' ‘victim's identity after The mouth, was slit with a knife “Limes wired classification of her ree inches on each side while . fingerpriuts to Washington. No she was still alive, the doctors “definite address Was available, said. » Banta Barbara, according to the + This plus a voncussion of the bureau, was Miss Saorv’s iast ” brain induced ry plows on the known vesitence. She may have a Ise er death, they ; lived elsewhere just, prior to her stated. Other mutilation of the _ slaying. body, which was found cut in ~~ ~~ ~ half and otherwise desecrated, occurred after death, in thei a Sex Fiend Slaying by Fingerprint Records of F.B.I. ‘cide detail in City Hail, claiming’ SHort had lived in Holiywood in In a telephone call to Bostohy squad office to report they rec- * hat Elizabeth Short wrote hey Short. with whom they occa- “the place reported that they: Qi victor Cefaluy-aepity autopsy’ Victim Identified ' Girl vested Santa Barhara potice revdpled that Miss Short was arr ted there in the latter part of Bep- tember. 1943. when’she was keen drinking with a number of sole diers in the El Paseo Restaurant. Then a minor, she claimed one of the soldiers was her husband. Police disproved this, Further investigation at that time disclosed that the girl was living with ene Vera Green in a West Cabrillo Beach court at S21-C W. Montecito St. Policewoman Mary Unkefer and other officers who visited: found two soldiers there, one of them in the hedtoom. Miss Green’ stated that he was her husband, but subsequently it was learned; that her soldier-husband was: overseas, i - The Santa Barhara authorities: ‘ placed Miss Short on a train by; order of juvenile officials, to he: yeturned to her parents. Nr. and Mis. Cleo Short of Medford, Mass, Since then she has not een seen in the Mi! mn City, + ‘At the time she was photo graphed in the Santa Barbara police station, Miss Short had small, brown, molelike freckles) on her left arm and two faint.| small, brown moles on her right cheek. This tallies in some ler} gree with the yesuits of an ex+; amination of the murder victim.’ Movements ‘Traced Capt. Jack A. Donohoe, given; the identification by The Times, ! jaunched an immediate investi- gation to trace the movements of the girl hefore she fell prey ty the perverted sadism of a pers son who apparently tortured her hefore she died. | Des. Frederick D, Newhar ant PATED (2 77> 477 Pog 2