Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-20
Dairy EmpIoye Declares Car
Sped Away After Shots
About 4::3O Am.
INFORMATION DOVETAILS
WITH QUARREL REPORT
Passing Woman Heard Youth and
Girl, Sitting in Similar Auto,
Having Argument.

A milkmans statement that he heard
two shots fired between and 4:30
O'Clock on the morning Beulah Limerick
was slain has furnished police with
their first information fixing the APP
proximate time of the Staying.
Donald f. Boyer, employed by the
Chestnut Farms Dairy, told investi-
gators that five minutes or so follow
ing the hearing of the shots he watched
a blue roadster proceed from the lane
in the rear of the murder house and
drive rapidly away.
Boyers statements brought a deci-
sion by police to check more carefully
the movements of the four suspects
now under arrest in connection with
the death of the Sky High Whoopee
Clubs secretary.
Recalls Woman's Story.
Boyers story of seeing the blue road
ster near the scene on the early MORN
ing of the murder dovetails with earlier
information given by colored woman
who says she saw girl answering
the description of the slain Limerick
girl arguing with a youth while the
two sat in blue roadster.
AS the colored woman passed the
mysterious blue machine she told police
she heard the young man say:
THE H-you will"
And his companion answered:
"YeS-the II / Wilt"
Police said that Boyer, explaining
why he failed to tell his story of hear
ing the shots and seeing the car earlier
in the investigation, said he did not wish
to be drawn into the case.
Shelby Not Excited by Clue.
When questioned this morning as to
whether Boyer's information would
tend to cast suspicion on any of the
four suspects or any one else, Inspector
William S. Shelby, chief of detectives,
replied:
Il cannot say just how pertinent
this information may prove to be--in-
formation coming to this Office three
weeks after the Staying would not tend
to excite us to the degree it would
had it been given earlier
Boyer entered the case late yeSter-
day, when police learned he had been
relating to friends and relatives his
story of hearing the shots and watch
ing the car disappear down the lonely
lane which skirts the mystery dwelling.
He told police he was positive of
hearing the shots on the morning OF
/ the Staying, because he commented on
the incident when he read of the
killing the next day.
Capt. Edward j. Kelly, assistant
chief of detectives, said today that If
the milkman's story is Substantiated 1t
may prove very important later on In
the investigation.
Police recalled that Robert Langdon,
fifth precinct policeman, held for the
grand jury in connection with the case,
told coroner'S jury that at o'clock
on the morning Of the Staying he
glanced in the window of the murder
house. He heard no shots.
Reed Statement Recalled.
Police further recalled that Richard
Reed, one of the four suspects held,
told them that he awoke at 4:30 o'clock
the morning before the girl was found
dead and noticed nothing unusual in
the home.
Bower also TOLD police that he noticed
a light burning in the basement room Of
the dwelling and said that there was
a light burning on the third floor. He
says he was serving milk at 1845 A
street southeast when he heard the
shots and watched the blue machine
drive from the little lane behind the
murder house.
Inspector Shelby said that Boyer
stated that there was no machine
PARKED in front of the dwelling and
called to the attention of reporters that
Investigators found no automobile tracks
leading down the lane where Boyer said
he saw the blue machine.
Investigators said they would spend
the greater part of the day in an effort
to verify the milkman's story. This
morning several men reported to have
heard Boyer tell his story in lunch
room at Fourteenth and East Capitol
streets will be questioned. 1t was
learned that Boyer's mother had not
been told the story.
Assistant United States Attorney Julien
I. Richards, who will present the case
against the four suspects to the grand
jury, will confer with police about the
case today.
More than so witnesses will be sub
poenaed some time this week to appear
before the grand jury.