Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02
Former Husband, Two More
Men and Young Woman
Sought for Questioning.
FOUR OF SEVEN HELD
FOR INVESTIGATION FREE
Inquest Will Be Conducted in Mys-
terry When Police Work Up Case
to Give to Jury.

The police investigation of the fatal
shooting of 19-year-old Beulah Linn
erick, popular secretary of the Sky High
Whoopee Club, had resolved itself today
into the elimination of the girls mas
culine admirers.
A coroner's jury was sworn in at II
o'clock this morning at the under
takers parlor where evidence of her
violent death sometime late Tuesday
or early Wednesday was uncovered
Wednesday night, six hours after she
was pronounced dead of natural causes
While police believe he can shed
little light on the case, they were
seeking in nearby Maryland today VIII
liam Earl Aitcheson, who married Miss
Limerick when she was IA. An an
nulment of the marriage was granted
the girl December IL last.
Others sought for questioning In
clude two young men and young wom-
an said to have accompanied Miss Linz
erick on an automobile trip to Kan
sas last Summer.
Body Released for Burial.
Information given headquarters de-
tectives this morning also named a
barber identified only as Brown" and
a painter known as Gates" described
as rivals for the young woman's favor.
The body was released for burial to-
day and the inquest will be held when
the police have worked up case to
present to the jury.
OF seven men held for investigation,
including two of the girls brothers,
only three were in custody today-Ver-
non Limerick, a brother; Richard S.
Reed, who lived in the house with the
girl, and her brother, where the body
was found at 10 Nineteenth street, and
william Edward Paddy of the 200 block
of Fourteenth street northeast, de-
scribed as the last man seen with Miss
Limerick.
A diary found IN the dead girls eff
fects, detailing her association with her
men friends, but giving little specific
information other than her impressions
of them, was being examined by head
quarters detectives. 1t contained ref
erence to more than score Of men
acquaintance, naming them only by
their first names or by nicknames.
Forced Marriage Claimed.
The suit for annulment was filed June
4, 1929, through her mother, Mrs. Dora
E. Limerick, stating the girl was mar
ried at st. Marys City, Md, in the
Summer of 1925. The court was told
Miss Limerick had been forced into the
marriage.
The suit stated Aitcheson had threat
ened her life and or one occasion cut
her with razor Miss Limerick left
Aitcheson in the Fall of 1926, the paper
said, and had never lived with him
since. The proceedings we're brought
through Attorneys Raymond Neudecker
and F. Joseph Donohue.
Friends of Miss Limerick, who said
she had not seen her husband for
year, declared she at first expressed
fear of him but later held no anxiety
on that score.
Police have obtained little informa-
ton from the girls mother. She said
she was summoned from her home on
North Carolina avenue southeast about
8 o'clock Wednesday morning by her
son, Vernon, who explained that his
sister was i'll. The girl was dead, she
said, when she arrived at the Nine
tenth street address.
Casualty Hospital was then notified
and an ambulance dispatched in charge
of DR.. Lyman Greene of the staff. DR..
Greene found the girl in natural po-
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