Find .Autograpl.ed Body Of Dead Girl In Hotel Los Angeles -Los Angeles po-| lice today announced the arrest of Harry Gordon, a waiter, for questioning in the bizarre death of red-haired Hallie Cecilia Oswald, 39, a divorcee with a record of intoxication. Police said Gordon, obviously drunk, was babbling about "killing a woman in a Figueroa street hotel" when taken into custody. Mrs. Oswald's nude body, across the back and front of which cryptic messages had been scribbled with a ball-point pen, was found sprawled across a bed in a bottle-littered Figueroa street hetel room in downtown Los Angeles yesterday. The death room had been reg-| | istered to "Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Gordon, Fresno, Cal.," 10 days earlier. Across the woman's bosom was written with a ball point pen: "I love you. I have to do it. It's the best." On her back was scrawled: "You have." A city- wide search was launched for Gordon after the dead waitress' former husband, Robert, a wealthy auto dealer, told police she had lived in constant fear for several months of "a man named Gordon" and had received death threats. When investigators attempted to question him last night, Gordon refused another to effort answer. will be They made said| question him later today. Prior to announcement of Gordon's arrest, Capt. Blaine Steed of the homicide detail expressed doubt that the death was murder. A preliminary autopsy indicated Mrs. Oswald "probably" died of acute alcoholism.
