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FBI identifies Girl Mutilated by Butcher Slaye LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 (CTPS)—Fingerprints have iden- tified the attractive victim: of a brutal sex-fiend murder found, ‘Wednesday’ in a vacant lot in West Los Angéles as Elizabeth Short, 22, of Santa Barbara, the FBI said,ioday. ‘The identification was made as scores of persons telephoned and visited the homicide detail in: City Hall, claiming the girl to be a rela tive or frierid. cectteie aif and othr TWISe ESE: crated, occurred: after death in their opinion, $16,000 Reward Planned So shocked by the details of the -butcher-murder were city of- ficials that a $10,000 reward was planned for the capture of the slayer. City Councilman Lloyd G. Davis said he would ask.the post- ing of the reward at‘ the earliest opportunity. Picked up. by officers early to- day at a ‘bus depot, Cecil French, 23,'of Bakersfield, was. booked on suspicion of a morals offense and questioned: concerning possible. im- Plication in Miss Short’s murder. ‘Fiench, said officers, was seen molesting women in the vicinity-of the depot. His automobile, parked nearby, was shy a back seat. French told police that he had re- Imoved the ‘seat to carry some ma- chinery. He was not considered a) “hot” suspect in the case. “| ‘Satita Barbara police:Tevealed!! Former Army Employe thas Miss Short was arreste e in September 1943, whe: . the ‘The victim had been employed [shi was seen drinking with a num’ 4n 1943 at Camp Cooke, Calif. a5ibe}* of soldiers. A’ minor, shi a post exchange clerk. ‘ele At the time.she went to work at ner husband, the army post; 100 miles north of here, her fingerprints were taken ‘and forwarded to Washington, a routine: wartime procedure with ‘fall civilian employes at military bases: 7 One youth was questioned at ‘ity Hall as a possible suspect in she-sadistic slaying, while in ‘the coroner’s office autopsy physi-, ed one of the soldiers Was cians announced that Miss Short! died of hemorrhage and_shock.»} ‘The young woman’s mouth: was} slit with a knife three inches on each side while she was still .alive, the doctors said. This plus a con- cussion of the brain induced by blows on the head caused her déath,, they stated. Other mutila- ti ELIZABETH SHORT the-body, which was found; . WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD Page. a — Sat a m=. stots ht ek Mr. Glavin. Mr. Ladd, = a r. Nichdls ie” Rosen yy ir. Tracy i Mr. Carson Mr. Eggmpgetenn'~ + Mr. Hendon , Quer. Pennington J Mr. Quinn Tamb