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‘Dahlia’ Freed (muider of Elizabeth Short, the murder. in a vacant, lot. | Release of Manley left police old case. Manley spent nearly two hours: in the crime detection laboratories while police chemist Ray Pinker put him through a series of tests William Sullivan, railway express. clerk at Union Station, ‘Los An- gele: ied is same one he views in photo of “Red” Manley. (sternaitonal SOUNDphoto) says man he-saw’ with Elizabeth Short. 24 hours before she | 22, “the Black .Dahlia.”. The handsome former “Aymy’ musician willingly sub- mitted to the tests, declaring he had nothing to do with; His wife and father both said he was at home the night Miss Short was slain and her body “dumped without a suspect in the five-day- He was brought in for questioning late last night ‘after | having been sought since last Thursday to learn if his story were true. Manley said he had had a flir tation with the black-haired girl}, whose bise¢ted body was found here last Wednesday. But he-had not harmed her in the slightest, |.he insisted, While-Manley was in the crime laboratory, Miss Short’s mother, | ‘Mrs. Phoebe May’ Short, of Med- ‘ford, Mass., returned from Berke- ley, Cal., and visited the coroner's "| office, 7 Despite. the plea of Coronér -| Ben Brown that it was netessary for a member of the dead girl's |family to identify the- body, neither: Mrs. Short nor her other. | daughter, Mrs. | would view it. rE just can’t do ity ” Mrs. | Short: sobbed. “It would: be too. " Continued on on Page 8 | hrife? New York Daily Mirror Page, ms Virginia’ West, | lurder Suspect >| | frer 2d Lie Test LOS ANGELES, Jan: 20 (UP)— Robert (Red) Manley, 25, was released. by | authorities today after two lie detector tests failed to link him with th + Tolson E. A. Tamm _ Clegg Coffey Glavin. Ladd Nichols Rosen ___ Tracy Carson Egan Hendon Pennington | Quinn Tamm _ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy qautilation | MOTHER WON'T VIEW aC DY. Elizabeth Short =< Neither her mother, Mrs. Phoebe ‘Short,-nor her sisfer,.Mrs. West, , filafed! gitl yesterday. a (international Photo)