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L A. Police Face New 'Dahlia' Type Murder(Continued from Pace 1) rry's clothes had been ripped from her'and the back of her head was crushed in. She had been attacked and her body mutilated. Strangulation marks were found on her neck.After Mrs. Montgomery failed to keep her appointment with May-cille, and did not return home this morning, Mayeille and a sister, Mrs. Roselle Jones, 18, found their mother's bloodstained automobilenear the playground.’ Reported Wife MissingHer husband, Thomas F. Montgomery, 45, an aircraft mechanic, reported to officers last night that his wife was missing. Police questioned him closely today.James Kennedy, who lives near playground, told police he had seen a middle-aged and partially, bald man step from the Montgomery automobile and walk rapidly away at 10:30 o'clock last night.A quantity of blood on the side of the car near the driver's seatWASHERANDREFRIGERATORSERVICEGUARANTEEDHOUSE CALLS PHONE 352-01LAWRENCE BROS.2644 E. ANAHEIMEstablished 1BS0RUPTUREWORRIESENDEDWITH THEaroused Hie officers' suspicions as soon as they were summoned.One of the victim's shoes was found about 20 feet from the car. Police theorized that Mrs, Montgomery had been accosted as she waited near the playground for her daughter and forced into a second automobile, taken several blocks to the vacant lot, and there attacked and slain.j In addition to the two daughters, Mr, and Mrs. Montgomery wfre parents of a son, Gene, 16.Sheriff's deputies found Mrs,; Montgomery’s purse near her body.? It contained $33.50, ration books,; personal notes and letters.They also found a small gold ! butterfly breast pin, evidently torn • from Mrs. Montgomery's blouse i in her struggle with the killer.I Rowland Guro told investigatorshe saw a woman running near hishome between 2 and 3 a. m. this morning.He was unable to state today jwhether the woman was Mrs.Montgomery.Today’s murder was the fourth of the ‘‘werewolf* type in Los Angeles since January 15.; Elizabeth Short, 22, Hollywoodparty girl called the “Black Dahlia”.was found with her pude body severed in a vacant lot.! Jeanne Axford French, 45, ac-. tress and “flying nurse” was found nude and trampled to death in a ; field in West Los Angeles on February 10. An obscene phrase and letters “BD” (Black Dahlia) werewritten in lipstick on her flesh. Third of Type This Year| The third of the series of 1947 ; unsolved murders was that of Evelyn Winters, 42, alcoholic, and ex-wife of a motion picture director/| Her body, also stripped of clothing, jwas found in a lot on Dueommun ‘ street at the railroad yards March ; 11. She had been beaten to death.} Police wondered if a Jack the | Ripper type slayer*was on the loose I again, because of similarity of the [four killings.iovfivsqiW.Atu:lerwethiTII!t|P8lt;ITalnwa:hioiw*1plP*iPlt;GscdsTOwbiCBfillmpiP*b(mfo
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Long Beach Independent
Long Beach, California, US
Sun, May 04, 1947
Page 39
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