Detective Quizzes Former Student In Dahlia Murder

A member of last year's Business School graduating class was questioned yesterday by Sergeant F. A. Brown of the Los Angeles Police Department in connection with the Black Dahlia murder case, the CRIMSON learned last night.

The former student, now an accountant in Boston, is not a suspect in the case, although he has been questioned before because he knew the murdered woman. Los Angeles police are in the process of checking back over all previous testimony in an effort to solve the four-year-old murder.

Sergeant Brown Wednesday night told the CRIMSON and other newspapers that his appearance at Harvard had "absolutely no connection" with the Dahlia slaying. However, Captain Blaine Steed of the Los Angeles Police Department refuted Brown's statement when contacted by the CRIMSON.

According to Steed, Brown was sent East primarily on an extradition matter, but was advised to interview two persons relative to background facts in the Dahlia case while in the Boston area. One was the former student and the other a waltress who had worked with the murdered woman.

The two Harvard students reported by Boston newspapers yesterday to have been "grilled" by Brown Wednesday night were actually CRIMSON reporters Paul W. Mandel '51 and Richard B. Kline '53, who went to police headquarters to interview the sergeant. Brown left town last night.