Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-09
inferno TESTIFIES
/ N-LINER|CK CASE
Declares He Found Girls
Body on NeWIy-Laun-
dered Sheets.
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NOOflIluu6Q, FROM FlESJ Hd&e.D
said the girl was lying fiat on her back
with the covers on the bed pulled tightly
around her shoulders and neck.
He was asked by the assistant District
attorney whether he noticed any sign
of blood on the pillows. He said he
noticed none. He corroborated the testi-
mony of Greene that the physician
lifted the girls head slightly from the
pillow during the curSory examination
of the girls body.
He was followed to the stand by Po-
liceman j. D. Bennett. Bennett said he
arrived at 1890 o'clock, and the girls
head was lying on a pillow covered with
a white slip He also testified that he
saw no evidence of blood.
Further testimony that there was no
sign of blood on the pillow was given
by officer John r. White also of the
fifth precinct.
Lieut.. A. c. Ketauver of the fire
rescue squad told the jury that when
he arrived at the house he found the
girl lying on the cot.
He said the girls head was lying on
"a couple Of old dirty pillows"
Il was tying a bandage around the
girls head in order to close her moutEA
when found blood on the pillow under
her head. l pulled the pillow out from
under her head and placed it on the
foot of the cot"
No Pillow Slips Seen.
Lieut.. Kefauver said that he saw no
that there were no sheets on the bed
The two pillows which police intro
duced as evidence were identified by
Lieut. Kefauver as the pillows he saw
under the girls head the day she was
found dead He also added that when
he lifted the girls head, little bit of
blood leaked off on his hand
Pvt. Sherwood Perry Of the Rescue
Squad testified the pillow was spotted
with blood.
Fred @. Byrne, an undertaken, of 81e
H street northeast, said that on the aft
ernoon following the girls death he was
visited at his home by William Limerick,
brother of the dead girl, who h says,
told him there had been death in the
family and that it was q coroner's case.
He said he then received permission
from the coroner's Office to remove the
girls body to the funeral establishment
of w. w. Deal. H testified that it was
not until the body had been brought to
the funeral parlors that evidence of
blood was discovered.
He said Carl Anderson, assistant en-
balmer for the Deal Undfr taking Estab-
lishment. first called his attention to
the blood on the back of the girls
head.
Sent to Remove Body.
He said Anderson had been sent to
to murder house TO remove the body
to the funeral parlors. He said Ander-
son was lifting the body from basket
to table. when he noticed the blood.
Byrne testified he Immediately called
DR.. A. McGruder Macdonald, deputy
coroner, who discovered the bullet in
the girls head.
Byrnes said that Policeman Lapgdoh
visited his home about 1880 O'Clock on
the night of January l..
He said LAngdon did not question
him. He added, however, that Langdon
acted as If he was trying to find out
something
Anderson, taking the stand, said he
discovered blood when he lifted the
girls body
At pm. the inquest was recessed
for enc hour, after the two undertaker's
assistants who removed the body from
the Limerick home shortly before
pm. on the day Of the girls death tes-
tilted there was no bandage under her
chin.
Scene Of Inquest Shifted.
The scene of the inquest was shifted
from the Morgue to the District Build
ing because authorities decided the
small room at the Morgue was made
Quate to accommodate the witnesses.
Police revealed late yesterday that
Langdon went to the undertaking estab-
nshment where Miss Limerick's body
was taken and questioned attendants
there on the afternoon of January !
or 2. At that time, police say, Lang
don's only connection with the case was
the fact that the shooting occurred on
his beat. He was working from mid
night to 3 am.
The bullet was discovered in Miss
Limerick's brain by the undertaken
about 6 O'Clock on the night of De-
cember 81. Langdon was detailed to
guard the death house early on the
morning of January q
Another examination was made at
headquarters last night Of Vernon
Limerick. Richard Reed and William
Paddy, all Of whom had been held for
Investigation since evidence of the
girls violent death was uncovered.
Mrs. Limerick Questioned.
They were questioned separately and
together with the girls mother and a
sister, Mrs. Julia Bywaters. Police said
they sought information from Mrs.
Limerick with regard to five coffee cups
left in the kitchen of the death house
on the morning Miss Limerick died.
Langdon found an. exploded shell in
one Of the cups while guarding the
house, police said. They quoted Mrs.
Limerick as having insisted she washed
the cups. herself only few hours after
her daughters death. Mrs. Limerick,
police said, declared it would have been
impossible for the shell to have escaped
her notice had it been in one of the
cups at that time
Inspector Shelby said. however, that
when he personally inspected the cups
there was enough coffee in one of them
TO have hidden the shell. This was some
time after Mrs. Limerick was said to
have washed the cups. Shelby said he
doubted If the shell could have been in
the cup when he made the examination.