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cated iaaiesli “steel ianentatenennnieeeneneiiiaeiatitmmaeiaans il (NEWS toto’dy Batfer) ajice ‘tation lastnight with Jawyer eee es oe wy ahi ss ‘ , : “by “acorn Marti and. Neal Patterson kl? Thus in-an exclusive interview with The San. “Praneisco, Jan; 42:(U,P),-—A: Hollywood bit player, anvested-as., Suspect tin the BI ele Dahlia ‘nuder, alibied today: that he: was-with his: “former wife,” rincipal in ‘the Robert Mitchum. tharijyana, case, the pats ago. Connors, 40, debonair and amooth- talking;, was icked 0 today i in Gilroy, Calif, and‘ brought here on,‘a tip . Lae a3 earlier N 1 suspect in in, ‘the savage ‘murder, Leslie off: ante on onnptop to New/ York in an attempt'ta\ wane fe distance: . Piloting a craft ie the 3 compjete the about 33 sit f “Guardia Find morrow and as, t that-mar! AY 300. Tmilds whep/shi ae yee the Was! H : i i} ps: out ‘from uhder Jef Connérs*. alibi, for th dénied ever depch: arrant when she- did: not. : knowl Onna wuch ‘less’ being appeae ‘or trial, "his ete a few minutes be] in Night Court, Magistrate Doris, | fore detectives arrested*hér in her 1. Byrne set bail for Vicki.at $2,501 room.at the Hotel. Sutton, 380 &, /‘and was pu Y a profes , 8th St.,.as atfugitiye from trial in ional bondsman. At 11 o’clock-stte : ‘California, as.a codefendant-in the. Wag released from the lockup. Rober& Mitchum marijuana case. Vicki was calm when. The News _ _ She also asséited shq was at ‘first renched. her by phone and Miami Beach—a wholo continents | told her of the news ticking in + width from Los’ ‘Angeles--at. the from-California, » tine “of the Dahlia rime, . “What. eae: that, honey? he Her Spouse sin- Pittsburgh, oe pero ¥ goodness, what di . _ The blonde dager denied to The Told of, Jeff Connors and his DNews’that her: Teal ‘name is. Grace elas: she said: " Allen, a3 Connors had told hi es ase Hone know anyone by that} , toners. She admitted: Vic! , 39-8 stage nanie. She.denidd Nearing ‘of Arthur Land 9 Connors. gays ish al 7 1 ‘Her -attorney, fof 115. Broadway, “i {of her-story, Bepis nows Vi rey \vaie it Ja 19 Vicki, h 2 a to discldge realmame, - ne also said she knows th fa: Pittsburgh’ man wha, 3 Pie and. dt Al. station for b fe hare. syedted “h oa fq-don't: know" the: idi Frectiot fiedjerk! Wha drying te, i kil i} mother? {Its absurd, ‘| IL ‘my,_dad ana ‘Why She, gasped tor Breit, and: con tinued: i “Oh, ‘my heavens! Horiest ‘goodness, “honey! Who thé devil- he? I.dgn’t know. what’ the Blad Dahlia case is, The first ti was -on the Coast was a wee) be fore that Mitchum éhing happened “Now, wait, ac! 47, xOU pa! it was ji Miami.Beach then py fathe Thadn't been feeling: it rd heed ectemarettenand 2A coh epee Pemettret NCE LENE es ae Lee ee Tomer Says He Caiee > “I can prove exactly w ere LN ‘News, Viel at-the'time pf-the- Dahlia murder,” he: told. Joseph Reed, Los Angeles assistant chief: of ‘police, who -flew here as ,the bizarre case was re- operied in ‘a. sézies of rapid-fire. developmients. Dillon, arrest¢d’ two days ago, wae “released in. Los Angeles be. se of ‘insufficient. evidence, Hi atory that another may had coi fesged' Inowledge of the crime to him -bad' at firs€-led_ police ‘to be- | hi sa Dy. Jekyll-Mr..- Hyde; y and ithe “ather man"? ms ay. Dillon's alter ego of & Tpit personality. ‘Connors is:a slender math with, al doing four or five: shows "aeday iijthin mustache and reddish ‘hair, } Pittsburgh. I'n at as 25, and {ii das hex ‘address. head of the squad, said been_mado solely pect had: ai arrived. ing, “her on. ‘the Black Dahlia cus: * Henan. after a conference}. wi eh strung N merous: réd-haired suspects : *Ganoes # ited he knew -Dil- n, Hé gaid he met- him in-*San hile Dillon Was w 3 ? Impliéates” ; tha Black Dahlia-in-a bar thonpight ybpfore hor ae hod: eal name, he goid, Hen.and his reabnanie was Arthin vane, Dillon was picked up and ques: } tioned in’ Los Angeles after poljeg fsaid‘he -told.a psychiatrish unpub= } Vished setails” of the niufder. Ha ‘named Connors ag the man whd' ar ae Vicki at Hicadquarters, said": told him intimate details of the y would ‘ipt jvaive You. eee might ‘he others,” she. said. “I only picked} the name for show. busjness. May- ibe you won't-béliove it, hongy,, I knew a. pick who: once es Was me extradition, | a dissectio; laying. “I don’t see ‘how, Dillon could have such information,” Corinors said, “We neyer talked .about-the ' cases Thaven’t the | yaguest idea irwhy he ied me. That’ -ytalks 2 lof, gloesn’t-he?” i Connors said he telephoned’ Los Angeles police thé day after tho dmurder and told axColumbia-studio \ 'Spoliceman about iSbyt but “nothing cams -of- i Lg “alice‘took-Connors ii1_an autos werqgad.for ‘Los Angele: