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_ _ _ I waslXIPolice Stumped byk Hew 'Dahlia' Death i sshe I LOS ANGELES. May 4. «N ill. iInvestigators working on Ihe case! ’ eg of Mrs. Dorothy Montgomery, lat- .ir- est* victim of a “Black Dahlia 8vo’'j type slaying, found themselves T1m- UP against the familiar pattern ,adieUs; today, a few meager clews but : nothing tangible. !Igsj Latest clew that may have aSeiite connection with the sadistic kill-! •a-. ing is a blood • stained “T” shirt.m. i It was found three blocks from; Hoier j Mrs. Montgomery’s home ig the' lly; Firestone Park area. jre It has been determined definite-, The ; iy that the blood on the shirt is; plans ’e‘. human^blood and now the garment • bill fc y: is being subjected to laboratory; live f 7*'i inspection to see whether it is'will i linked with the woman’s death. . ' which s_| Mrs. Montgomery, her clothes.nual i '■ : ripped from iier body, was found j gen istrangled to death under a huge-man' pepper tree .just north of the. ccmm■ suburb of Watts early yesterday, i effPCt She had been badly beaten, al-: ju]y though the beating was not the public -cause of her death, and her neck over I and chest had been mutilated. An! p autopsy disclosed that she had not! thi_ .. been criminally attacked. !w , 1 made« Mrs. Montgomery, who was not.]10Qsea frequenter of saloons as were- nersot; Ihe “Black Dahlia/’ Elizabeth! *vml iShort, and other victims of muti-jlalion killings, was last seen alive tax c-S about 9:30 Friday night when she ary 1■ left home to pick up a daughter; confjn 1 at a teenage dance at the Siauson fjle b : playground. bijj | She never reached the play-j Wit 'ground, hut her slayer apparently jority . knew her destination, for after she j mt?asu i had been killed he parked her |1 bloodstained car beside the recrea-! jn^ lotion center, Presid— }}Jn
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Long Beach Independent
Long Beach, California, US
Mon, May 05, 1947
Page 5
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Eli F.
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