The Washington times., 1933-10-25
KILLER" TELLS
I | HOW He SLEW
USHER

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charge and that time they didn't
have enough to prove you
guilty?
A.-NO, and 1 gave them rea-
SON not to find me guilty.
Q.-Since then you have re-
tracted your former statement
denying your guilt and Surren-
der yourself on the charge OF
numbering Beulah Limerick?
Ayes.
Q.-What was your motive
for shooting Beulah?
Al don't know whether they
call it self.defense or Jealousy,
because 1 beat her to killing me
or killing the girl I was going
with in Philadelphia at that
time.
Q.-WhOse revolver was this?
Anime, 1 bought it.
Q.-Where did you buy it?
A.-Off a private party, /
won't give his name.
Q.-Why won't you name
him?
A.-BecauSe this is mixed up
with scandal and / don't want
to bring him into it.
els there any of these car.
tridges around anywhere?
A.-NO, 1 discarded the whole
thing. There was one shot
fired and 1 discarded the rest.
Q.-SuppOSe you just tell us
In your own words from the
time this thing happened, what
you did?
A.-What did you mean, after
It came in my mind? 1 pre-
pared six (6) weeks before prob
ably, my ideas of killing her
first because 1 had too much
to live for and 1 wanted to get
her before she got me or my
girl. There was another girl
I was going with her. I went
to Washington on the 9th and
also 28th. 1 left Washington
on the 29th and came back to
Philadelphia and stayed here
and went back again on the
21st. Left at night, about
o'clock at night, got there at
11:3O. 1 stood nearby and
watched until she came home,
back with the fellow that
brought her back. Brought her
back about l o'clock and left
Immediately. 1 watched until
about an hour after he had
gone, went to the house and
went in and she was hardly
awake and 1 went to her and
said I came back to her and
had her believing that every.
thing was all right so as not to
wake her brother up as he had
a room in the house. 1 took a
gun from my pocket and fired
one shot in her temple and
know it killed her instantly as
it didn't seem to wake her up.
I dressed her and used lip stick
or the lips, put rouge on her,
covered the bullet hole and
Strengthened the sheets and I
ran and got in the car and
drove to Philadelphia and
parked it on a lot at Eighteenth
and Arch SITS. Then l went to
my house at North Seventh St.,
no the address 1 live at now.
/ was boarding, not living with
my people. Got in bed. / came
back and got home before any
body would be up, as / took a
cab. Didn't take the car there
as 1 didn't have a car and didn't
want the people 1 lived with to
have any suspicion Of any kind.
Went off to bed and 1 didn't
get up until about 10 o'clock
for breakfast. Didn't show any
signs of anything having hap
pened, kept absolutely calm. 1
watched the papers and watched
how everything was going and
returned the car to the owner
next day. He came to Phila-
delphia to get his car and I met
him that evening and he went
/ on to Boston.
: Q.-HOw about the prepara-
tiOns that you fixed her up
with after death. Did you take
them from Philadelphia?
Al took them with ME
from Philadelphia and also
brought it back.
Q.-Did you discard them
also?
. Al discarded them as soon
as 1 got back to Philadelphia.
Left one in the telephone booth
and left another in another
booth.
Q.-Whose automobile did
you use?
Al don't want to name
him. OF course, I will name
him if you want me to.
Q.-North or South?
A.-NOrthwest, their streets
don't run north and south.
They run southwest and north
west.