The Washington times., 1931-01-05
HIS LETTERS.
TO BEULAH
MISSING
Police BaffIed by Mystery;
Probe All New Angles Of
Case; LansdOn to Go Free
Cconainusd From Paes :.

case; Lang0On 10 UO rTee
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hs beat, he stopped in and
wazAed her that q party she was
sAwlMg was making too much
noise.
he told members Of the honi-
eide squad that there was q 'Mr.
Edwards" with the girl at the
time.
Yesterday, informed that the
siEl did not know any Edwards,
TIE officer said he 'believed, on
second thought, that the mans
name was not Edwards but Ed
ward N4yer or Mayer"
Under the District law, police
Oan hold a suspect for 46 hours
FOR investigation. At the end Of
that time they must either re
lease or charge him.
The former Polls Theater
usher was slain with as caliber
automatic pistol, and at the time
Langdon was brought to head
quarters for questioning he was
armed with such a weapon. A
second pistol Of like caliber was
found in his home.
ASSASSINATION Of the two weapons
and comparison with the two
enapty shells found in the room
where the girI was killed, how
eyee, revealed that neither Of
taaem was the death gum, Lieut.
JOalM Fowler, baIlistlcs expert q
TIE MeArOpOlitan police force, said.
PoIlce Are at Sea"
This report Of Lieutenant
yow3eraS threw the investigation
into worse disorder, and police
officials admit that they are COM
pletely at sea.
The present status Of the case
d no different tham il was on 6
O'clock Wednesday night when
discovery was made the girl did
mot die froEn y hem0rrhage, but
had bean murdered rs she slept.
Besides Langdon, three other
raen are stiM held BY police for
Investigation.
They are: vernon Limerick.
brother Of the dead girl;
Richard Reed, a friend who
lived with the brother and sister
In the little house on Nineteenth
Street;
william Paddy, who brought
the girl home from q dance only
Q few hours before she was slain.
Have New RumOr Tip
Despite constant grilling police
have not been able to shatter
the stories told by these young
men, and they, too, must be re-
leased or charged.
Confronted with o mystery that
rivals the peculiar cases Of Vir-
Ginia NcPherSon and Mary Baker,
pOiaee are graspiag at any straw
that comes their way in the faint
hope that it may lead to some de-
velppment.
The latest rnmOr to be invest
gated Is that the girl may have
b6en sRain by . young Central
AfneFiOaM who il attached 10 one
Of the embassies"
This man, it Yves said, net
the girl when she was an uslaer
ct old Polls Theater and wrote
her ardent letters.
Later, when they broke I'D, he
attempted to secure the letters
but she refused to give then up.
when pokee searched her room
they failed to find any trace Of
thea.
Po1Ace have returned to the
girls diary in a new hope that
among the names Of her many
boy friends" some new clue may
be uncovered.
Police are considering the
theory that the girl may have
been shot during a fight, as ex-
animation Of the blanket which
covered the girl bore bullet holes
though the perforations showed
no powder burns.
The fight theory was strength
eaod, some officials held, by the
discovery Of q bruise on the girls
left wrist and q small cut on her
moss. h.t
The fight theory is discounted
by other officials who point out
that Vernon Limerick and Reed
were asleep upstairs and heard
no struggle or no shots.