The Washington times., 1931-01-16
Pop Gates "A,
VISITED BY
BEULAH
Claims Usher Wanted TO Go
With Nice People; Didn't
Like Her Mode Of Living

ClOSGu 10 b41C OO4OA4O4 . JA&S wv
fore it ended it's sessions and
turned the case over to the con-
sideration Of the Grand Jury last
night. The identity, back Of the
name, Pop" proved to be Stephen
Russell Gates, who testified with
his son, Stephen Russell Gates,
jr., before the investigating body.
The son testified that he had
known Beulah and had met her
in May, 1928, seeing her three or
four times q week after that. He
saw her for the last time about
year ago Christmas, he testified.
Collins asked him:
did you ever have any trOu-
BILE with her?"
'NO."
"why did you stop seeing
her"
Pop" Tells Of Visits
'Tt was because Of fellow
named Brown, who was going
with her at the same time l
was. / discovered it and told
her it was him or me. She
wouldn't decide, but she tried
to see me after we broke up"
The senior Gates, "a, was sub
jected to a whitening cross-exam1-
nation by James O'Shea, counsel
for Vernon Limerick, Richard
Reed and William Paddy, Collins
first asked him how he met Beu-
lah Limerick and he replied:
Through a note she brought
to me at a time when my boy
was in trouble. She said she
had some information for me"
"YOur son was in custody at
the timer"
eyes"
'When did you last see herr"
"About six weeks ago"
''Where?"
"At my home, 62S5 Thirty.
third st. N. w.
"Did you correspond with
Miss Limerick"
eyes; four or five times in
answer to some question she
would write me-"
Signed Letters Pop"
''How did you sign your let
lers?"
pop"
"POp?"
"Yes that's what they all
called me-"
Didn't they make an agree
ment to come to see you every
Thursday night?"
eyes, there was something
like that said, the last time
they were there"
"What did you want those
girls there fOr?"
ooh, they came with mes
sages for Russell"
"But you never told Beulah
that Russell no longer wanted
to see herr"
''NO; / didn't want to hurt
her feelings. But did tell her
he was going with another girl.
Beulah came to me when / was
in trouble, bringing me infOrma-
tiOn. / will always remember
her as . nice girl"
Gates denied he ever had writ
ten affectionate letters to Beulah,
and had written her only as q
father, he said. When O'Shea took
the witness he asked:
WAS your wife living with
yOu?"
Lived o Mile Away
mo, I lived about . mile
from her"
How long would the visits Oe
the girls last?"
"Well, BeuIah had TO get home
to fix supper for her brother
and q IOdger, and Martha had
to get home to fix supper for
her husband"
"What OccasiOned the cessa-
tiOn of these viSitS?"
"I haven't an idea"
did they stop suddenly"
eyes, they never came back
after that Thursday"
did Beulah ever ask you
for advice about BrOwn?"
eyes, I told her he was o
nice boy, and she'd better stick
to him. That was last sum-
mer."
did you understand she was
to marry Brown?"
eyes, that's what she wrote
me. He was living ut her
mothers house."
Harry r. Whelan, attorney for
Robert Langdon, brought out that
the usher never had complained
to him about mistreatment from
any persons outside the family,
but that she was dissatisfied with
conditions at home. The witness
was not sure that she had ever
written saying she was to move
from the Nineteenth Street house,
but said at one time she spoke Of
an o1flcer coming to the house,
and he was under the impression
that she was moving because Of
this.