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~aek Dahlia’ Suspect to Face By United Press » LOS: ANGELES, Jan, 20—A 25-year- old former Army musician, handsome rl ” AManley, admitted to nth-long gayiyflirta- 7 ed Elizabeth” Short, the “Black Dahlia,” but steadfastly ue” nied any connection with her death, Manley, married and the father of a four-months-old boy, said he “turned _ “ sick inside” when he. learned that Miss Short's severed body was found in a ‘vacant lot Wednesday. SUITERING FROM SHOCK Police booked Manley. on suspicion sof murder, nevertheless, and said he ~ would be questioned further about his connection with' the git! . Taken into custody after a business trip to San Francisco, Manley, a pipe: clamp salesman, consented to a lie de- , tector test at midnight. Police later said Manley was suffer- g from shock and nervous strain, and le couldn't’ establish 2 good normal” ih the detector test and will be given Mother today. “P}L go thru with it,” he said, “I know I'm in the clear. I have noth- ing to worry about.” ~ His attractive blond wife, Harriet, + 22, sat in another room at police head | quarters, wringing her hands and Jean- ing for support on William Morris, Manley, the father. : . Police decided to pick up Manley after linking him to’Miss Short thru evidence uncovered in ati intensive week-end investigation. They declined to sey what actually:led them to him. MEL at BUS STOr He admitted his association with Miss Short, 22-year-old beauty whose last hours were lihked to a red-haired companion. He said he. brought her hhere from San Diego Jan. 9, but de- nied seeing: her since that day, when he left her at a’ downtown hotel. ‘Miss Short, who!had a host of boy riends, because known as the “Black alia” because of -her love for sheer, lack clothing. . ‘Police said William “B, Sullivan,” _ MISS SHORT “Such a pretty girl” Railway Express clerk at Los Angeles station, tentatively identified Manley as a man who accompanied Miss Short to*the station the day before she died. ‘Sullivan said she inquired about pro- cediire for shipping a trunk and suit- case to Ketchikan, Alaska.- Manley, whojlives with his family at suburban South Gate, said he met Miss Short Dec. 15, a month before her mu- tilated body was found. She was stand- ing outside.a bus station, at San Diego when Manley, there on @ business trip, drove by. Sa “She was such a pretty givl‘I.stopped- land raked up 4 conversation with her,” he sai “pip YOU DO 17?” u He'said:he had a dave with her that night and, “kissed her 4 few times—but that’s all.” oo . ‘When he last saw her Jan. 9 at the ‘Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, he said that she hoped to meet her sister, Mrs. , ‘Virginie, West of Berkeley, Cal. * “phe sister wasn’t there,” h sald} wasuineton ioe Page__& <T'did?” >. Manley was picked up at the home : Mr. Tolson Mr. — Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. F Mr. ~ Mr. Mr. . Mr. Nease Miss Gandy Clegg Ladd Nichd Rosen Tracy “Carson Egan Lie. Detecto that’s the last I’ve seen-of:poor-Beth:” A slendet, néatly-dressed.man, Man~ Jey said he was at San Francisco on business and did not learn of Miss left ‘her at 6:30 in therevening—-and { pe .Short’s. déath until her picture ap-- peared in the papers Friday. - “4q called my wife,” he said. “The first thing she asked me—crying—was ‘Did you do it?” I told“her, ‘Of course What éyer made you vnink, ° 1 e said ‘he first:mét Miss Shott Dec. 15 in San Diego, thei “just ran into her” again in January when she had “pad scratches on both her arms above the elbows.” He said’ she blamed a “jealous” Italian boy friend for. the scratches, He drove her here frony San: Diego Jan. 9-after they spent the night vogether at a hotel, he said. * am ‘No charge was filed against him, but nis auto, a black Studebaker—similar ‘to one described by Miss Short’s frien as belonging to the mysterious ‘tall red-haired companion—was impounded) a fellow salesman. Hendon Pennington Quinn Tamm _ E, A. Tamm v Goffey Glavin.