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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) 4 - . Singer Cass Elliot’s Ex-Fiance Quizzed, Released in Tate Case BY DIAL TORGERSON Times Staff Writer A former fiance of singer a oO 26, who had been ot has been que described in Hollywood Canad? and released, Canadian au- thorities reported Thursday. -But another man, also identified as a former fiance of the singer, is still wanted for questioning, Los Angeles police said. Miss Elliot was a friend of actress Sharon Tate and director Roman Polanski. Miss Tate and four other persons were slain early Aug. 9 at the Tate-Polanski home in Benedict Canyon. Canadian authorities later put out an all-points bulletin listing four men as suspects in the Tate case, two of them Canadians who had at one time been identified as fiances of the plump singer. Los Angeles police talked to one of four men, then said he was being ased and that the others wer ig sought only for questioning n Thursday, a Los Angeles detective interviewed William (Bil- ly) Doyle, 28, in Toronto, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported. The RCMP said the LAPD officer told them he was going home. No hold was placed on Doyle. At police headquarters in Los Angeles, officers said they 1 soning question Harris p. tay. gossip columns as Miss Elliot's finance before she announced that she and Doyle were engaged. At a party in May she introduced Doyle as her fiance. Also present at the party were three of the five victims of the Aug. 9 killing: Miss Tate, Voityck Frokowsky and Abigail Folger. Miss Elliot, formerly a member of the Mamas and the Papas singing group, was divorced earlier this year and has not remar- ried. "Billy Doyle and T were engaged once." Miss Elliot told a reporter Thursday night. "I've known him a long time, and he's a fine person." The other two men named in thee RCMP broadcast are Thomas Mi- chael Harrigan and Charles Tacot. It was Har- rigan who came to Laos Angeles police, while he was being sought in Cana- da, and offered alibis for all four men. He said that he had been at a party 20 miles from the Tate home the night of the slayings, that Doyle and Tacot were in Jamaica and that Dawson was working as a truck driver in New York State. C, R. Doey, superinten- dent of the RCMP's cri- minal investigation branch in Toronto said -that his officers—acting on a Los Angeles request r= first interrogated Toon tom 7 ‘amaica. —Ss (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) II-8 Los 4ngeles Times Ios Angeles, “Talif, Date: 8/29/69 Edition: Ome Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: LOS Aneelec CJ Being Investigated AUG2 9 1969 FBI— LOS Y