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4 Je HOU) Nantes Vieki As alia ase Albi SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. (UP).—A handsome Hollywood bitplayen arrested as a suspect in the Black Dahlia” murder, alibled today that he was with his “former wife,” dancer Vicki Evans, a principal in the Robéeit Mitchum marijuana case, the night of the sadistic Slaying in Los Angeles. Je onnors, 40, debonair and smooth-talking, was picked up in Gilroy, Cal., and brought here on a tip from the latest “No. 1” sus- pect in the savage murder, Leslie “7k 27, who said Connors téld"~ im “intimate details” of how the “Black Dahlia,” Elizabeth” Short, was killed two years ago. Connors branded the ex-San Francisco bellhop’s attempt to implicate him as “ridiculous.” Dillon, arrested two days ago, released_in Los Angeles on giounds of insufficient evidence. ‘Connors said he knew the 22- ar-old Miss Short “by sight” ahd had told Los Angeles police he saw her in a bar the night be- fore her slashed body was found in a lot, On the murder night, he said, he was with Miss Evans and ‘working as a standin on a Co- { lumbia Pictures lot, Her real name, he said, was Grogan. She was his former fe, he added. Columbia Pictures in Los Ange- Jes denied ever havii Connors” or “Arth their payroll. . Un New York, Miss Evans de- ,;nied through counsel that she had been married to a man named Jeff Connors, that she ever knew such a man or had. ever used the name Grace Allen.] Connors said his real name is Arthur Lane and “Connors” is a pen name he has used several years. Miss Evans’ Los Angeles Jaw- . yer said she had not béen in the ‘West until a year and 4 half ago. Reed took Connors to Los ngeles this afternoon when eed said, Connors would be juestioned further. New York Daily Mirror Page__> Date. Mr. Tolson_ Mr. EB. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg. (mb. Glavin. | ae aaa 7 b. Nighols ean Ca Mr. Tracy_ Mr. Egan. Mr. Gurnea. Mr. Harbo, Mr. Mohr, Mr. Pennington__ Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Nease. Miss Gandy———__ PP yy 6 HOF es ey 44 AR 11 190 Rte ee