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“Slayer From out oi slain Elizabeth Sh, came the voice of his: ton, Mass., who ‘boré the sus. pected killer a child during ‘a said’ yesterday | ‘violent romahce, at her home: std. “Tf he did this awful crime, I hope he gets everything, he deserves. I am terrified of: him myself. He ‘has’ vicious fits of temper and has--beaten mej on several occasions.” Aji Fort Dix, Dumais, who un- til His arrest had terrorized other } Sol ers as “the toughest M. P. Army Criminal Investigation Di. vision officials, trying-to check contradictions in ‘Ris so-called. “confession.” : . turn, ‘however, when Interna- tional News Service reported that five enlisted men at Fort Dix will testify ioday that Dumais- could not possibly have been, on. the West Coast at the time of the murder, According to INS, the men will Swear ‘that Dumais was on the Post between Jan. 10 and.Jan. 16, and that they had seen chim: per- sonally, The report said ‘the sgldiers particularly remembered thle murder Suspect because-he hpd been censtired for barading around in the -uniform of a céunter-intelligence officer, a Capt. Wiliam H. Florence, head lof Dix’s CID, whi aid he a e Dahlia the ‘brutal, wom: Joseph Dumais, wlio. has told aut nav ort, the “Black: D. L sles, ‘gotten ¢éommon. law wife yesterday | to brand him as a “vicious,” psychopathic bully, - : . Madeline Nichols; 25, ofHollis-4 . in the. Army,” was closeted with 4 The case took a sensational | an Alibi Cpl, Joseph: Dumais : Army “confident” he’s .the oe slayer. % is “confident” Dumais is the mystery ‘slayer, ‘was trying to, ‘break through the Brisoner’s{, “blackout” to ascertain these| two: key points: whether Dumais} actually was in Los Angelés on|. Jari, 15, when Elizabeth Short . was. murdered, and whether he Continued on Page 12° a oe wed New York Daily Mirror Page_.2 Tolson E. A. Tamm _ Clegg Coffey Glavin. Ladd Nichols Rosen Tracy Carson Egan Hendon Pennington _. Quinn Tamm _ Nease Miss Gandy