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ft Reporters Trace Victim's Movenrsn _ She was described in the FBI files as 5 fet 6 inches tall, 121 pounds in weight, with brown hair and green eyes, medium build and fair com~ plexion. Examiner reporters were immediately sent to Santa Barbara and Camp Cooke to trace back on the girl’s movements and to-trace. her to this vity. The identification by the Examiner came as the first big break in the investigation of the crime : which shook the city. The girl’s body, severed at the waist, was fund Wednesday morning in a vacant lot on prton. avenue between 39th street and Coliseum ayenue, She had been dead about 10 hours at the e e she was found. The slayer had in plain view. It was only a few feet from the sideway ik. i Efforts’ to- solve. the prime had been blocked all Weant bday night by Jack of identification of the body and police were practically vat a standstill in the case until the Examiner learned the vic- tim’s identity. | One suspect—Cecil French -of Bakersfield—was in “custody. CAR CLEW—— Arrested after he had been ac- cused of molesting women at the bus depot, he revealed he owned a car which later proved it might be a connecting link to the Short slaying. The back seat was removed. On othér—spioistery there wasj where and then placed the body | H ed her else- stains which police chemists were! analyzing. * ‘A car had been seen at thp INorton avenue site about thp| time Miss Short’s mutilated| body was deposited there, This car and French’s police said, were| similarpin description. |SISTER LOCATED - After} eqntact had been made| with Mrs, Short in Massactfusetts, ‘the investigation swung tol Berkeley. There a sister of the slain girl, Mrs. A. C. West, lives| at 2614 Warring street. It was possible, investigators, believed, Mrs. West would know something about Blizabeth’s Imgvements. ’ Late last night, the clerk. bf the North .Orange drive hoi! told how Miss Short, who hac livadg—these with two other girls. often “ran behind in her. rent.” (7- “