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Mas Mr. : Mr. é Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr, q Mr. Mr. ““y1son B.A. Tn Clegg Coficy Glavin Lad Nidiors Be< Rogen . Za LZ Mr. Tracy ae 7 Carson Mr. Egan Hendon Pennington _- “a 7. Quinn Tamm, _ “NMr, Nease Miss Gandy ‘Torture-Slaying Victim Feared Sadist Suifor | ». (Pictures on Page 1.) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17—A iotea suitor who kept pretty Elizabetli”Short today as a suspect in her torture- murder. Investigators withheld the man’s name, but said the 22-year-old girl told friends on several r~ ~sions she was “deadly afraid of him.” The suitor was desv..red by Dorothy She said Elizabeth was “very popu- jar” with men and had many dates ‘but often spoke about hiding from a hoy friend who frightened her, She left the French home hurriedly for Hollywood: Jan, 8, a week before a frenzied killer hacked and tortured her jto death. : * On the night she was killed, a ver- —— rs AN Ver ped ror-stricken girl answering her descrip- tion begged a policeman for protection from a “jealous marine” who threat- in deadly fear of her Tifé~WaS-lifinttéd"}ened to kill her. the girl spoke of meeting*a bus from San Diego. She was ‘sobbing’ and hys- terical from fear. cut in two and savagely mutilated, was found in a Lovers’ Lane vacant lot. qt French, with whom Miss Short lived |Was identified eet night_by_fingel dn San Diego, Calif. rints in FBI files. Ri pouee sai aie app: nude by her feet during Hours of tor- ture before she died of shock and hemorrhage. tered around a Main-st cafe where the girl told Miss McBride she had run into her threatened to “kill her if he-ever found her with another man.” to the bar where the girl talked to two men and ® woman for a.few minutes, then left, Miss McBride said she told: her to go home. : ie for someone whose bus is due in.at 1:30.” Policewoman Myrtle McBride said ‘The next morning Miss Short’s body, ‘She apparently had hung Search for the fiendish killer cen- former boy friend, who Miss McBride accompanied the girl “I can’t,” Elizabeth said. “I'm wait- ‘The 10:30 bus comes from San Diego, here she was believed to have heen ployed at the naval hospital. de WASHINGTON NEWS Page___- _ The development was the fitst clue in the sadistic slaying, described-by po~.| lice a sthe most revolting sex crime been pickd z it ead een picked up-as 2 juvenile delinauent ‘TWSante Barbara, Calif,, in 1943, for G@inking in a restaurant with soldiers, Policewoman Mary Unkefer, whd’ cared for her before she was sent‘homd| to her mother, Mrs. Phoebé Shorto: Medford, Mass., described her as “vei good looking and nicely: dressed.” ‘The blue-eyed’ brunet was mutilated. | and butchered early Wednesday in a secreb hideaway while her ‘thighs, wrists and ankles were bound ‘with: rope or wire, Chief Autopsy Surgeon Dr. Frederick Newbarr listed the cause of -déath. as shock and hemorrhage from the deep slashes the slayer inflicted. | Her mouth was. ripped’ from-ear to ear while she was still alive, and Dr. Néwbair said the agony of that would’ bring .on shock, ‘Then she apparently || was beaten about the head and face with a club, causing the-concussion but ‘still leaving her conscious. enough tp | suffer. He said the horiible mutilation 4f'|| -the torso occurred’ after death. one 22 1947 JAN —