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axhout 33-— would come toe the desk and pay her rye’? the tlerk said. ad “This man awned 2 fairly old model black Ford sedan, When the three girls left, they drova off in this sedan.” Reporters learned at Sante Barbara that at the time Miss Short was taken inte custody there three years ago, she was befriended by the arresting po- Heewoman, Mary H. Uneter. “She had the blackest hair ever saw,” Mise Unefer ra- ealled yesterday: At the time of her death, the girls hair was hennaed, but the original dark strands were be- ginning to regrow. EIVING IN COURT “She was Hving in » court with a Vera Green,” Miss Une- fer also said. “Thera were four | soldiers from Camp Cooke in their cottage when they w: rested. Miss Green said them was her husband, we later learned her husband was a soldier overseas? The cottage was at 321-C West Montecita street, In Santa Bar- bara. This was the address give. br the FBT “While she was awaiting ac: sion on the probation investi- gation, I took her into my home,” the policewoman. cdi- tinued, “She was with me sqye: eral days, I noticed she wangs / ivery nice ght and was m@t- neat about her person and clothes. “The juvenile court released her on probation finaly and I took her te a bus on which she started ta Massachusetts, The Santa Barbara Neighborhood _ House gave her $10 for expense jaoney.” : REACHED HOME—— iss Unefer said she psitive” Miss Short reached Ker hope in Medford because sevefal letters came to her from the! girl there. This was another fact ron-|, irmed by the mother. The policewoman revealed that’ he Short girl had a rose tattooed! on her left “leg. F “She loved to sit sa that it * Misa Unefer re- § identifying blemish. The girl apparently went to! work at Camp Cooke--in the! commissary -—~ on her return 40 California, The camp is abo jti four miles north of Lompoc | j Meantime Dr. Newbarr of- fidally reported the cause of decth as “hemorrhage and shock due to lacchationewaf the face and concussion of the brain.” REL, Minter “¥ i E26 a ’ t me e ey Ft ray) _ ved, J | eee “his ‘fingurpoint, trenuattied veda: sountiphote te the Faderal Bureax of Investigation ix Washington, wax.one of | several whiek identified slaying victim here as Elizabeth Shork. weInternations| Hews soundpuate, ¥ VICTIM IDENTIFIED—Th: ix Elizabeth ‘Short 2, whose mutilated body was found on a Los Angeles vacant lok Waduecles morning. She was identified through Hngerprints rushed ta the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington by this newspaper.