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vs vee . x Cops Secking Female Sa an By United Press » Mr, Tolson far\ BE. A./Tamm _ Mr.} Cle Former Roommate Suspected of. ‘Black Dahlia’ Slaying s.) nose “ eo Et Lo. “OO " Mr. Tracy LOS ‘ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 2i—Police made a complete about-face. today in theii efforts to Mr. Carson. x } find the torture-murderer of pretty Blizabeth)/Short, and began an intensive search for 4,wonian, Mr, Egan rather than a-man,.as the mutilator“Of the (Black Dahlia.” 27". 3 Former ‘roommates of the-strikingly os beautiful 22-year-old girl were placed first on the list of those to be ques- toned. ‘The decision to change-all pre- vious tactics of the week-long search came after a meeting of the city’s top- ranking police officials which began last night and lasted well into the morning hours. ,WITHOUL LUGGAGE (Prime suspect in the new drive js a girl roommate who disappeared Jan. 14, the day Miss Short’s tortured and mutilated body, hacked in two, was found in a lovers’ Jane, ‘Adding to the belief that the girl's - slayer may have been a woman were hyo factors, ‘First, she was known-to be in Los Angeles Jan. 9 without any luggage Which would indicate she spent the eek before she was killed with some foman who could provide extra cloth- tional policemen and began: a wide- girl’s murderer, where the bisected body was found! -blankets, the ropes with ‘which she w: bound while tortured’and her tortur den. tt ‘The search turned, ip a_military- stybe watch, still unidéntifie * "Others officers began a> thoro check, of all: the Los’ Angeles. drinking spots where thé popular girl“had béen seen, Others went to the. Biltmore Hotel, where Mr. Manley said“the girl was meeting a friend, the day he last sai her. : An inquest was set for tomorrow aft- er Mrs. Phoebe Short, mother-of the dead girl, identified her butchered Mr. Manley’s pretty blonde wife, Oe @ who insisted her husband was innoj| its and makeup. ; MR. MANLEY cent of the fiendish slaying, left th { ‘Second, police officials said-they be- . : ae jail arm ‘in arm with him. che Kved the killing followed a patterngSduad, figuratively starting from?” “That's the last time Til ever spread search for new clues to the Mr Mr. Hendon Mr. Pennington hunting for «her clothing, bloofy/Miss Gandy o! Her presence in Los Angeles Jan. 9 Was sworn to by Robert (Red)\Manley, | 25, who. was cleared “of susp! yes- terday after a long grilling by police ‘aiid two lie detector tests. JEALOUS SUITOR SOUGHT Manley suggested another possible suspect, a swathy, sticky “blind date” who jealously scratched Miss Short's arms until they bled. The man was insanely jealous of the girl, he said. “I saw some scratches on hér arms when I had a date with her,” Mr, Manley said. “She told me a blind date had been arranged, for her:in San Diego with this dark; swarthy man, ‘This man thought another fellow got too friendly with her and she with him. He got insanely jealous. That's when he slapped and scratched her.” NO MORE CHEATING - st yO . Le Mr, Manley saw the girl, whose . 7 oC note coal-black hair and fondness for shepr, | : we fack clothing gave her the “Blabic ahlia” nickname, on Jan, 9 when, he Id police, he let her out of his auto ee a Los Angeles hotel.: whe police ‘departmént’s homicide 1 J B20 194 i WASHINGTON NEWS ‘ Page, oy 7 other-horror-murders by women, — Scratch, was augmented by 100 addi-!on my wife, believe me,” he declare i. Quinn Tamm _ ~ Half of them combed the areaiMr. Neaso