Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
MOTHER OF GIRL
DENIES BODY WAS
ON CLEAN BEDDING
Mrs. Limerick ContradiCtS
Testimony of Inferno That
Pillows Were Fresh.
ALSO SAYS SHE WASHED
COFFEE CUPS IN KITCHEN
Patrolman Langdon Expected to
Take Stand When Inquest
Reopens Monday.

Testimony in fiat contradiction to
that offered by the Casualty Hospital
inferno, who pronounced Beulah Linz
erick dead, featured today's session of
the coroner's inquest into the fatal
shooting shortly before the hearing
was adjourned at noon until Monday
morning.
Mrs. Dora E. Limerick mother of
the dead girl, today assured the jury
that Miss Limericks head was lying
ON ordinary sofa pillows when she was
examined by the inferno.
The inferno, DR.. Lyman Green, told
the jury yesterday Miss Limerick's body
apparently had been laid OUT on i'm
maculate sheets and pillow slips" when
he examined her.
Says She Washed Cups.
Mrs. Limerick further testified that
she personally wiped all coffee cups in
the kitchen adjoining the room where
Miss Limerick died. Patrolman Robert
F. Langdon of No. precinct, who has
been held for investigation in connec-
ton with the shooting since Friday, re-
ported he found an exploded shell in
the death house early on the morning
of January 2.
Mrs. Limerick was positive that the
shell could not have been in any of the
cups when she cleaned them several
hours after Miss Limerick was found
dying in her bed by her brother, YER
non.
Attorney Harry T. Whalen, who is
representing Langdon, said his client
would take the stand on his own behalf
at the conclusion of the coroner'S in
quest. which is expected some time late
Monday. Whalen is associated in the
defense of Langdon with Attorneys
Louis Whitestone and w. B. O'Connell.
Feared Publicity.
Mrs Limerick, widowed mother of
seven children, explained that she
asked her son Vernon and William
Paddy to say they all went together
to dance in Capitol Heights on the
night preceding Miss Limericks death
because Of her fear of newspaper
publicity.
. The witness denied she made the
suggestion from fear that stories of
Beulah's drinking and running around
late at night" would invalidate small
policy carried on the dead girl.
Her fear that the newspapers might
use story implying Miss Limerick had
committed suicide prompted her, Mrs.
Limerick said, to admonish Vernon
and Paddy against talking too much. :"
Mrs, Julia Bywaters of 1l6 North
Carolina avenue southeast, sister of the
dead girl, was the first witness today
after Sergt. John Flaherty of the homi
eide squad concluded his resume of the
police inquiry.
Say Bed Not Rearranged.
Both Mrs. Bywaters and Mrs. Linn
erick assured the jury that the body of
the girl was not rearranged by members
of the family or any one else, so far
as they knew. The two women agreed
that when a Casualty Hospital inferno
head was resting on ordinary sofa cush-
ions, which were not covered by pillow
slips. The inferno, Lyman Greene, tes-
titled at yesterdays hearing that the
girl apparently had been laid out in a
bed covered with immaculate sheets and
pillow slips.
Mrs. Limerick testified that Beulah
brought to her virtually all the bed
clothing in the latter's home, at 10
Nineteenth street southeast, asking that
the sheets and pillow slips be sent to
the laundry two days prior to Miss
Limerick's death Mrs. Limerick said
the laundry later was returned to her
residence.
Mrs. Bywaters said she last saw her
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