Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
Seven Men Held After BeuIah
Limerick, 10, Is Found
With Wound in Head.
DENIALS MADE BY ALL;
MORE ARRESTS DUE SOON
Undertaken Discovered Bullet Mark
After Demise Was Attributed
to Natural Causes.

The diary in which the victim wrote
her private opinions of men may help
police solve the mysterious death of 49,
year-old Beulah Limerick from bullet
in her head, discovered last night
eight hours after death had been at
tributed to natural causes, when ar
undertaken found a wound leading into
the brain from the back of her head.
The small green book, with its pages
closely written in a girlish hand, con-
tains a running fire of comment con-
corning her engagements with men, her
private estimation of their worth and
other details of her daily life.
A patrolman set to guard the house
in which the CIR. was pronounced dead
a tWo-story frame structure at l8 Nine
tenth street southeast, found the diary
in the girls effects last night.
Seven Held for Investigation.
Five men, acquaintance of the girl,
and two of her brothers were being
held for investigation today. All denied
knowledge of the cause of her death
Police predict several additional arrests
in few hours.
The case first came to the attention
of authorities about 10 o'clock yester-
day morning. At that time an uniden-
tilted man telephoned Casualty Hos
pital that girl was dying at the Nine
tenth street address.
An ambulance was dispatched in
charge of DR.. Lyman Greene of the
Casualty staff. The hospital also noti-
fed the fifth police precinct and Police
man r. L. Eubanks was sent to the
scene.
DR.. Greene on his arrival pronounced
the girl dead. In a ground floor bed
room she lay upon cot, her body
lying naturally as if death had come
in her sleep. He said there were no
bloodStains upon the bedding and
nothing to indicate violence.
Failed to Notice Wound.
The girls hair was neatly arranged
on the pillow into which her head had
sunk. DR.. Greene found she had been
dead for approximately an hour He
failed to notice the bullet wound.
In the meantime Policeman Eubanks
arrived and was told by the girls
brother, Vernon Limerick, 18 years old
a clerk, living at the same address, that
he found his sister dying when he visited
her room shortly before the hospital
was notified.
Dr. Greene notified Deputy Coroner
DR.. Joseph D. Rogers. When told OF
the circumstances, which included in
dications that the girl had died OF
"hemorrhage, DR. Rogers authorized
the release of the body to an under
taker.
The body was removed to the funeral
home of w. w. Deal. There. when it
was being prepared for burial, about 6
o'clock last night, the bullet wound
was discovered and Deal notified au-
thorities.
Autopsy Performed.
Deputy Coroner A. McGruder Mac
Donald performed an autopsy and re-
moved a .25-caliber bullet from the
brain. Headquarters and precinct de-
tectives launched an investigation, led
by Sergts. Waldron, Flaherty, Tally
and Sweeney of the homicide squad.
Two guns were found in the course of
the investigation, neither of which
could have fired the death bullet, the
detectives said.
One of the guns, a .3S-caliber pistol,
was located in the room where the girls
body was found Detectives said it had
not been used for months. The other
was located in a garage on Benning
road near Central avenue, where the
dead girls two brothers are employed.
In addition to Vernon Limerick, those
held for investigation following an ex-
tended grilljng at No. precinct last
night include another brother of the
victim, David Limerick, % years old, a
painter; Earl oed, 80 years old, also
a painter; Neil Benton Mason, 30 years
old, painter, all of whom are dodgers
at the home of the dead girls mother
at 116 North Carolina avenue southeast;
Alfred Paddy, 10 years old, laborer,
of the 200 block of Fourteenth street
northeast; Richard Reed, % years old,
a clerk, who lived with Miss Limerick
brother, Vernon, at the Nineteenth
street address, and William Edward
Paddy, % years old, laborer, of the
200 block Of Fourteenth street northeast
Detectives Question Vernon.
Miss Limerick, her brother, Vernon
and Richard Reed had moved from the
home of the girls mother on North
Carolina avenue several weeks ago tt
take the house on Nineteenth street.
Detectives were told by Vernon Linn
erick that he left his sister talking tt
William Paddy early yesterday morn
ing in a ground floor room of theil
home. He went to bed then, he said
finding his sister i'll when he next Wis
tied the room about 10 am. yesterday
Richard Reed according to police
said he arose about $50 yesterday
morning to build fire in a wood stove
as was his custom. He said at thai
time the girl appeared to be peacefully
sleeping The roomer then left for the
gasoline station on Benning road where
he and Vernon Limerick are employed
Detectives also questioned the girls
mother, Mrs. Dora E. Limerick, who
was summoned to the Nineteenth street
home yesterday morning by Vernon
Limerick
According to detectives, William
Paddy was Miss Limerick's escort tC
a dance at Capitol Heights Tuesday
night, returning about midnight.