Daniel S. Voorhees Daniel S. Voorhees Daniel S. Voorhees (born 1913) was a transient restaurant porter who confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short on January 28, 1947. He asked members of the Los Angeles Police Department to meet him in downtown Los Angeles, at 4th Street and Hill Street (Los Angeles). Voorhees was eliminated as a suspect in the Black Dahlia slaying because his handwriting did not match that in the killer's note. Voorhees spent the night in the Los Angeles County Jail after he told LAPD detective E.R. Barrett that he met Elizabeth Short on Hill Street two weeks earlier. He
Short S.36 for naval officers. The Admiralty was sufficiently impressed by the aircraft to order two similar aircraft to be built, these becoming the Gnome Double Omega-powered Short S.41 and the Gnome Lambda-powered Short S.45. Short S.36 The Short S.36 was a British two-seat tractor biplane, built by Short Brothers for Frank McClean in 1911. It was later developed into the Short S.41 and Short S.45, which were the first of a long series of similar aircraft built for the RNAS and RFC. The origination of a tractor biplane design was due to Cecil Grace, who had flown a Blériot tractor monoplane