Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
Greek Who Left Here Wed
nesday Night Said to Have
Talked of Murder"
R0vER'S OFFICE TO GET
EVIDENCE FROM SHELBY
Detectives Interested in Reported
Quarrel Of Girl and Jealous
Suitor Christmas Day.

ready examined in connection with the
fatal shooting of 1s-year-old Beulah
Limerick. Sergt. Thomas Sweeney of the
homicide squad was on his way to Bed
ford, Pa, to return q man under arrest
there, q Greek. who described himself
as Paul Loskaris.
There Is no information. however.
that Loskaris was acquainted with the
dead girl. He left Washington by train
for Philadelphia Wednesday night.
about the time the death bullet was dis
covered In the girls brain, and then
took a bus for Bedford.
Passengers told police in Bedford
that Loskaris inquired Of them en- route
II there were officers Of the law In the
latter place. Informed there were, the
passengers said Loskaris hurriedly left
the train several miles out Of town.
Said to Have Professed Interest.
Bedford authorities later arrested
Loskaris, who was said to have pro-
fessed interest in the Limerick case.
Their suspicious were aroused, the on
GERS told Capt. Edward Kelly, assistant
chief Of the homicide squad, in q tele-
phone conversation last night, when
Loskaris made reference to murder"
which he seemed to feel he might be
wanted for"
The evidence and information COL
lected by the homicide squad, particu-
larry that bearing on Policeman Robert
F. Langdon of No. precinct, now held
Tor investigation in connection with the
shooting, will be turned over to the
district attorneys Office later today.
Inspector William s. Shelby said he
wished TO get an opinion from the dis
trict attorneys ONCE with regard to the
case.
Three Others Held for Inquest.
In addition to Langdon and Loskaris
three other men are being held for
coroner'S inquest, the date Of which
Is as yet undetermined
William Edward Paddy, 90 years old,
Miss Limerick's escort to q dance 1T
Capitol Heights, Nd, on the night pre-
cedine her death. Paddy, as far as
police have been able to determine,
was the last man seen with the girl.
Vernon Limerick, 1e years old, a
brother of the dead girl, who lived
with her in the house at 10 Nineteenth
street southeast, where he found her
dying Wednesday morning. Young
Limerick was grilled for several hours
yesterday, but stuck to his original
story.
Richard S. Reed, % years old, a
roomer in the Limerick home Head
quarters detectives expected to ques-
ton Reed further today.
In particular the detectives are inter-
ested in an alteration which the girls
friends said occurred on Christmas day
between the girl and jealous sutton.
Slight bruises on the arms and scratches
on the face were found.
Langdon Clings to His Story.
Following services in Washington,
Miss Limerick was buried Saturday in
Potomac Mills, Va, only q few miles
from the cemetery in Oak Grove to
which Miss Mary Bakers body was COM
nlitted.
Police have been unable to shake
Langdon's original story. He has been
2; Gue saaons1 at length as to his motive
came out Of the Limerick house about
2 o'clock on the night of the shooting.
Langdon trailed the stranger, he said,
TO an all-night lunch room at Four
teenth and East Capitol streets. He
waited until the other left and then
asked the proprietor who he was.
Langdon said he did this because he
woo AAlNCcbASdO11lS u OF .QlSCTQerly
conduct at the house and suspected the
man had come out to purchase whisky
and would return.
The man then went on to his home,
in the 200 block of Fourteenth street
northeast, according to information
given police by his sister. He later
returned to the Eighteenth street adj
dress when informed the girl was Ill
and was present when the ambulance
arrived.
Shined Light Into Room.
Langdon went back to his beat, re-
turning by the Limerick home shortly
after 4 o'clock. Langdon admitted
shining his hashlight into the girls
room, seeing her lying in bed beneath
the covers as If asleep. Seeing nothing
suspicious, Langdon said, he went away.
On Wednesday night Langdon was
off duty. He was assigned to guard
the death house on his return to duty
at midnight Thursday At that time
Langdon found an exploded shell in a
coffee cup and % caliber bullet en-
bedded in the floor beneath the cot
where the girl had lain. When two
other policemen from No. precinct
arrived Langdon helped them pry the
bullet from the planking
Shelby said that when he and mem
bers of the homicide squad examined
the furnishings they found only a single
exploded shell, picking 1t of the floor
near the bed. He said, however, there
was enough coffee in one Of the cups
to have covered the second shell and
that he did not pour out the liquid
Exploded by Same Gun.
A bullet taken from the girls brain,
the other found by Langdon and the
two shells were turned over to Capt.
John Fowler of No. 10 pnecinct, the de-
partment's ballistics expert, for COM
parison with two .25-caliber guns which
belonged to Langdon.
While the death bullet was badly fat
tened and defled any sort Of identifica-
ton. Fowler reported both shells had
been exploded by the same gun, and
that neither of them had been ex-
ploded in either Of Langdon's guns. He
said the bullet found in the flooring
came from one Of the shells.
Langdon's wife insisted yesterday he
was innocent
Capt. Kelly denied a rllmor that q
young Central American attached to
one of the embassies" was being sought
for questioning. No love letters re- /.
puted to have been written by the dip
lonat" to the girl were found in Miss
Limerick's effects and members Of her
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