Detective Claims No 'Black Dahlia' Killer Hunt Here

A Los Angeles detective last night called "absolutely untrue" Boston newspaper reports which yesterday claimed that he was seeking the "Black Dahlia" murderer at Harvard.

The detective, Sergeant F. A. Brown of the Los Angeles Homicide squad, told the CRIMSON that the reports, which stated that he had conferred with University officials about the brutal killing of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in January 1947, were "lies . . . and had no basis in fact." The reports alleged that an entry in Miss Short's diary had led Brown to a suspect who "is now a student at Harvard."

Visited Business School

Brown admitted he had checked alumni records at the Business School yesterday, but that they "had no connection with the Short case." He added that he had not found the name he was seeking in the Business School files.

The detectives flew east from Los Angeles to work on an extradition case in Jersey City; he came to Boston to check on a man now imprisoned in Cambridge and to clear up other matters with the Boston police. "I'm always interested in the Short case," Brown said, but he emphasized that his trip to Cambridge had nothing to do with the killing.