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ie a THE WASHINGTON POST xhiee Saturday, Janua —, 1947 Police Seek Mad Pervert Tn Girl’s Death Los Angeles, Jan. 17 ().—The mutilation slayer ‘of attractive 22- year-old Elizabeth Short, whose brutal butchery was described by ® police psychiatrist as: that of a séx-perverted madman, was being sought on a Nationwide scale to- day, with authorities trying par- tictilarly to locate her several “boy} friends.” * ‘Her suitors were many, ‘said Police Capt. Loren Q. Marlin of Long Beach, where the girl lived until recently. He added that to hangers-on at a neighborhood drug store near where she lived she was known as “The Black Dahlia,” for her raven-hair and the jet black elothing which she usually wore. When her mutilated, bisected body was found in a vacant lot Wednesday morning, her jet hair had been hennaed and was just beginning to grow out in its nat- ural color. Seek Army Lieutenant Police would particularly like to question an unidentified Army lieutenant, described as “tall and| hatidsome,” whom Miss Short al-| Tegedly told friends she intended to marry. She also was frequently visited at her Long Beach hotel by a’ Navy man, Martin said, and in Los Angeles, Policewoman Myrl McBride asserted Miss: Short once asked her for protection from a discharged Matine whom the girl described as “insanely jealous.” Martin said she also reportedly had a number of other suitors. Miss Short, native of Hyde Paik, Mass., came here from Medford, in the same State, about four years ago for her health, police were in- formed. Shortly afterward she took a clerk’s job in the post exchange at Camp Cooke, near Santa Barbara, where, said er former boss, Mrs. Inez Keeling, e&e at first was shy and bashful and never dated the soldiers. A Model Employe ; At that time, Mrs. Keeling told Police, she was a model employe in all respects, not smoking and seldom drinking, A few months later, said Mrs. Keeling, she began to go out-with the soldiers several times a week, Identification was made through fingerprints on record with the FBI, both as 4 result of her Army post job. and through her arrest in 1943 vas a juvenile delinquent. . She is the daughter of Mrs.“Phoebe M. ‘Short, Medford, Mass, Dr. Paul de. River, po “irist;-vaid her murder was Stainly = Bitchered Girl \Was Engaged © Associated Press WIREPHOTO ELIZABETH SHORT of Medford, Mass., 22-year-old victim of a Los Angeles butcher- slaying, had planned to wed an unknown Army Air Force lieu- tenant undergoing hospitaliza- tion, a friend of the slain girl said yesterday. Mrs. Marjorie Graham of Medford, said Miss Short told her of wedding plans sharing a hotel’room in Holly- wood the work of a sex maniac mani- festing “the sadistic component of a sado-masochist complex.” (In Medford, Mass., Mrs. Phoebe M: Short, mother of five daughters, said she would bring the slain girl’s body home for burial. She said that Betty told her in a letter two weeks ago that she had been doing “bit parts” in motion pic- tures until she took employment in fa Wavy hospital at San Djaget—= last October, when they were © Mr. Mr. Mr. \ Mr. ue 4 Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. » Tracy___ Tolson, E. A. Tamm_ Clegg. Glavin, Ladd. Nichols’ Rosen Carson, Egan. Gurnea. Harbo_ Hendon, Jones, Leonard. Pennington_ Quinn Tamm_ Nease. Miss Gandy. : * This is a clipping NETO. from. the WASHING TONAL FPasy dated_s// 7] ¥4 Page _/G