Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16
LIMERICK INQUEST
ORDERS FOUR HELD
Langdon, Paddy, Reed and
Vernon Face Grand Jury
Investigation.
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told her something was wrong with
Beulah." They returned to the Nine
teenth street house and found her dead.
Later 1t was ascertained she died of q
bullet wound in the head. No one
around the house admitted hearing the
shot or any disturbance.
These were the essential facts pre-
sented TO the jury concerning the events
at the house Immediately before and
after Bsulah's death.
Other Testimony Confusing.
Testimony of other witnesses, how
ever, was highly confusing. With be-
wildering rapidity suspicion would be
shifted one to another of the suspects.
After hsaring all the testimony and
celebrating more than an hour, the
coroner's Jury was not able to decide
who fired the fatal bullet into the head
81 the youthful secretary Of the Sky
Assistant United States Attorney W.T.
liam H. Collins is preparing to present
the facts to the grand jury at an early
date. He will ask this body to name the
slayer or slayers, and return indictments
charging murder in the first degree.
Il feel confident the girls slayer is
among these the detectives questioned"
Collins asserted. Il also believe there
was great deal of perjury at the
inquest and that the Jury acted wisely
in holding all four men for the grand
jury. The investigation of the case win
continue from my Office and police
headquarters and we hope to find addi-
tional information to aid the grand
jury"
Kelly 10 Continue Probe.
Capt. Edward J. Kelly, chief investi-
gator, said his men would also be kept
at work on the case.
Bangdon was the only one of the four
suspects to make statement at the
inquest. When Harry Whelan, Lang
don's attorney, announced his intention
of putting his client on the stand,
Collins objected and legal squabble
followed.
Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt ruled that,
as Langdon was making a voluntary
statement and was not under, oath, he
could not be cross-examined.
Langdon Makes Statement.
Collins announced at II O'Clock last
night that all the Governments evil
If any of the suspects wished TO make
statement.
Attorney James O'Shea, representing
Limerick, Paddy and Reed, said: MY
clients will make no statements at this
time"
Langdon, who had been waiting with
apparent impotence for chance to
talk. then left his seat and walked to
the witness chair. He was calm and
began his statement in firm voice:
THE house at 10 Nineteenth street
first came to my attention in the mid
die of last November, when one of my
superiors said there had been COM
plants of something wrong on my
beat" he said. Il went to the house,
but the windows and doors were board
ed up and I thought It deserted. Two
weeks later there was another COM
plant, however, and on December 10
went to the mystery house, Is we
had started calling IL.
IT met Beulah for the first time that
morning. She was scantily clad and
entertaining q man. After some con-
versation / told her to move when the
rent was up, as I wouldn't tolerate that
kind Of house on my beat. Later, one
night. I returned and watched the
house"
Many Women Leave.
At this point Coroner hewitt inter-
rupted. THE things Mr.. Langdon is
about to describe are not At for women
TO hear" he said. Il give YOU this
chance to leave the roonr.S Most Of tire
several hundred women present left at
once and the few remaining hastily de-
parted when photographers started tax
ing pictures of the room.
One woman, as she left, called to her
husband: Listen to this, Joe, and tell
me later"
Langdon then resumed his statement,
giving a description of the acts he had
watched. Coming down to the night of
the shooting, he told Of seeing Paddy
leave the house. He told OF following
him, of learning later that the girl had
guard in the house.
He concluded with description of
his search of the house, in violation of
orders he said he had not understood.
Il first found the shell in the coffee
cup. Then the hole in the mattress
and floor and finally the bullet" He
also told of his arrest as a suspect and
the grillings he was put through by
police.
Policemen Daniel r. Thompson and
Joseph W. Bell of the fifth precinct
Of the bullet. They had gone to the
house to take him food.
Tells of Pistol Tests.
Sergt. Thomas L. Mcnamara of the
Trafic Bureau told Of tests he had
made with a .25-caliber pistol In the
death house on January 6. He ex-
pressed the belief that a gun of that
make could have fired the bullet found
in the floor, but that 1t would have
been impossible for the shell to have
been injected into a coffee mug In the
next room. THAT shell must have been
put in the cup by q human being" he
said.
Mrs Rose Langdon, wife of the sus-
pected policeman, denied she had ever
auarreIed with him about Beulah. she
also denied telling police headquarters
by phone that Langdon, while sup
posedly on duty, was in reality with a
woman in his car near the scene where
the Limerick girl was killed about two
months ago.
Kuehling testified he received such a
call from woman who said she was
Mrs. Langdon."
Two other policemen. Paul Berger
and Thomas Carter, admitted they had
been friendly with Beulah. Berger said
he fought over her about two years ago
with David Limerick, her brother.
Admits Correspondence.
Something Of sensation was created
by Russell Gates, ST., "a, who admitted
having had considerable correspond
ence with Beulah, signing his letters
Pop"
Gates, who lives at s2s5 Thirty.
third street, testified he met Beulah
when she came to his home with q
note addressed to his son Russell, jr.,
who had preceded him on the witness
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