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surgeons, reported finding three deep abrasions on the forehead Just over the right eye. They in- dicated Miss Short, had heen: severely slugged by a blunt in-! strument, which may have caused concussion. Her skull was not fractured. When the young woman's hody was found some small pieces of flesh were missing. ‘These were found by the autopsy surgeons, . Tied for Torture Marks around the girl’s legs, Wrists, neck and right thigh: , Showed she had heen tied with, rope or wire prior to death. Det. Lis. Harry Hansen and F. A Brown said tiey believed she had bean bound and tortured be. fore her murderer carried her body to the Norton Ave. “lovers Jane” for disposal, So shocked hy the details of the’ butcher-murder were city ‘officials that a $10,000 reward was planned for the capture of the slayer. City Councilman Lloyd G, Davis said he will ask the posting of the reward at the earliest opportunity. Resemblance Doubted Policewoman Myr McBride,! who said the ‘victim looked like’ a girl she talked with on Mainj St last Tuesday night, last night was more dubious about the re- semblance after seeing Elizabeth Short’s photograph, The policewoman said the girl. jeame to her in a bus station, saying “Someone wants to kill me," then told of a former sery- iceman-suitor’s meeting her in ja bar and repeating a threat on |her life should he find her with ‘another man. Policewoman Me- . Bride said she Jater saw the mri ;Feenter the bar and emerge ; with two men and another wom- an, She had told the policewom-; an she was to meet her parents; at the bus station later, Miss: | McBride said. i | The entire homicide detail joined in the widening search for the killer as telephones in. the squad reom jangled inces-. _Santly with the tips of citizens. Who read=eftémurder, { H Depot Visitor Questioned Picked up by officers carly terday at tue bus depot at ¢ and Los Angeles St Cecil | “rench, 23, of Bakersfield, was booked on suspicion of a morals offense and questioned concern- ling possible implication in Miss | Short's murder, t French, said the officers, ¥ n molesting women in the of the depot, His automo- hile, parked near by. was miss- ing a back seat. French told Hansen and Brown that he hai -removed the seat to carry some machinery, He was not consid-' ered a “hot? suspect. One caller said he had seen a ear drive slowly along Norton Ave. at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, pause to turn into an alley, then continue slowly away. The caller ,did not give his name. Cars Seen Near Scene Another witness, Roh Myer. jalso reported sceing a Ford se-, dan pauxe near where the body was found, and continue, He! Placed the time at 6:30 am. Other witnesses, however, said. they walked past the lot as late; ) a8 830 am. Wednesday without; seeing the body, found only 12 feet from the sidewalk, An automobile registered to} Wilford A, Dougherty, 4212 5B. Slauson Ave. abandoned in a servite station at 950 W. Man- ; chester Ave., was thought to be. a lead yesterday. Strands of; ‘grass hung from the mud-splat-( ‘tered door. Flecks of blood dot-; ted the upholstery. Three news-: papers, all dealing with the, erime, lay on the seat. i Det, It. Stewart Jones dis-' missed Dougherty as a suspect. however, when it was learned that he had left the car in the service station early yesterday morning on his way home from A POTTY. pemeepemanee