Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-27
GRAND JURY VISITS
LIMERICK HOUSE;
POLICE RENEW QUIZ
Officers Hope Testimony OF
Four Prisoners May Give
New Murder Clue.
SEWER TRAP BULLETS
ARE UNLIKE DEATH SLUG
Firearms Expert Holds Missiles
Found Yesterday of Different Man
ufacture-"Joke" Suspected.

While the District grand jury today
visited the house, 10 Nineteenth street
southeast, where Beulah Limerick met
her death on December 81, investiga-
tors announced that they once again
would interrogate the four men held in
connection with the case at the Dis
trict Jail
Bullets of Different Make.
Meantime Lieut.. John Fowler, the
departments firearms expert, informed
his superiors that the IL .25-caliber
bullets found yesterday in sewer trap
near the home Of the girls mother
were of different manufacture than the
death slug.
Lieut.. Fowler said that the bullets
are Of the same general type as the
fatal bullet, but said that eight OF them
are of American manufacture and the
remainder of Austrian make.
The bullets were found in the trap
on the southwest corner of Second and
D streets southeast, not far from 116
North Carolina avenue, where Mrs. Linn
erick resides.
Later police recovered the chamber
of a .32-caliber revolver from a sewer
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and D streets intersection.
Bullets on Brothers. Route.
Police say that both of the sewers
lie along the route taken by Vernon
Limerick, brother of the dead girl, when
he left the murder house on the morn
ing of the Staying to tell his mother
that Beulah was either sick or dying.
A number of cartridges and .32-calIber
bullets were found along the route from
the murder house to the mothers home
but it was not until they neared the
latter home that the District Sanitary
Engineers crew uncovered the .25-cali-
Der bullets.
Most of the investigating detectives
are inclined to believe that the bullets
we're planted" by practical joker.
The bullets found in the wooden
panels of the ramshackle shed directly
behind the murder house also were set
aside as possible clues toward the Solu-
ton of the murder of the Sky-High
Whoopee Club secretary Inspector
William S. Shelby, chief of detectives
announced that there were no further
leads today, and that they were merely
waiting now for some possible develop
ment in the testimony that might be
given before the grand jury.
Grand Jury RecOnvenes.
The grand jury called its first witness
at 1850 O'Clock this afternoon. He was
Walter S. Beck, detective at the fifth
precinct, who assisted the homicide
squad with the investigation Of the
case. At 1890 the grand jury asked
to hear the testimony of Sergt. John
Flaherty, chief of the homicide squad.
Flaherty was not in the witness room
and a search of the Supreme Court
Building for him was fruitleSS. 1t is
believed that Flaherty. along with sew
eral other of his detectives, was at the
District Jail grilling the four suspects.
The four suspects, held in the District
Jail, are Policeman Robert F. Langdon,
who testified at the coroner's inquest
that he was near the scene on the
morning of the Staying; william E.
Paddy, a friend of the girl; Vernon
Limerick, the slain girls brother, and
Richard Reed, roomer in the girls
house.