The Washington times., 1933-10-23
CRIME
IS CONFESSED
BY GOLFER
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ton for many weeks, for the case
was intriguing in every detail.
Here was a 19-year-old girl, yet
. bride at the age Of IA. Separated
from her middle-aged farmer huS-
band, she embarked on a career
as a play-girl.
Led "WhOopee Club"
She headed the "Sky High
Whoopee Club" an organization
Of flaming youth" such as she,
a group that danced and sang,
drank, made love.
Beulah had scores of admirers.
Just how many will never be
known. But the slain butterfly's
diary mentioned many.
The diary, which was read by
the Grand Jury, told of bitter
quarrelS, of jealousies, any one OF
which might have held the solu
ton of the mysterious murder.
Every detective in the homicide
squad was assigned to the case
"Get the killer of Beulah Liner
ick" were their orders. But they
new. found the slayer.
Four men were held to the
Grand Jury, following one of the
most sensational coroner's inquests
ever held here.
One of the four was police
man, Robert F. Langdon, later
dismissed from the department.
Bullet Hole Found
Langdon was the cop on the
beat" that the girl said she
feared. And by strange coinci-
dence, Langdon was placed on
guard duty in the death house
when it was discovered that Beu-
lah Limerick had not died
natural death as first believed,
but had been murdered.
When she was found uncon-
scious in the little house near the
District Jail, where she lived with
her brother Vernon and Richard
Reed, who posed as her 49, Il,
the first doctor summoned pro-
nounced her dead from natural
causes.
It was not until the body of
the play-girl had been taken to
an undertaker's and was being
prepared for burial that a bullet
wound was discovered in the back
OF her head, a wound from a .25
caliber pistol.
LangdOn Involved
The undertaken called in police
and the investigation was started.
Langdon, placed on duty in the
death room, found an empty .25
shall in a coffee cup on the
table, he said.
When detectives learned that
the girl had expressed fear of
Langdon, they found he owned
two guns of that caliber. Balls
tics tests showed, however, that
the death bullet had not been
fired from them.
Searching for the guns, detec-
tiveS found a still in Langdon's
home. He was suspended from
duty and later dismissed by the
9OllCe 1rlal board.
Three Held, Then Freed
Reed, Vernon, and William
Paddy, another member of the
little whoopee club, were ordered
held to the Grand Jury. But
that body was unable to find
any evidence which would war
rant indicting them and they
were freed.
Paddy was the last man known
to see Beulah alive. He took the
girl to dance in Capitol Heights,
Md, the night she was slain.
They danced together, and left.
And a few hours later Beulah
was dead.
But after she had been killed,
the slayer made every attempt to
cover up his crime.
Her face was powdered and
rouged, her hair neatly combed
and pulled down to cover the bull
let hole. A small wad of hair was
plugged in the wound to stop the
flow Of blood.
Arrest and Quizzed
A fresh pillow slip was placed
on the blood-stained pillow.
Langdon admitted that he had
peered in the window of the little
house attempting to get evidence"
on the girl. He denied that he
had ever threatened her or at
tempted to take her out.
Paddy clung to his story that
he had delivered the girl home,
alive, well and happy, upsetting
the theory held by Beulah's
mother that she had been slain
elsewhere anu the body planted in
the little house.