The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-20
LANGDON'S Wife.
Due TO REVEAL.
HIS CONFESSION.
Ex-PoliCeman's Mate to
Be Star Witness
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and he said he didn't have any
thing to do with it,"
Frank s. Marshall, retired police
man, testified that he had guarded
the house on the shift just before
Langdon came on duty the morn!
ing Of January 2.
Marshall referred to the place
as "the mystery house" and De
tense Attorney Kelly asked why
he called it that. Marshall replied
that the house was called that
because Of the mystery as to who
killed Beulah Limerick.
Following the noon recess, Mrs.
Rose v. Langdon, eStranged wife
Of the accused ex-policeman, was
called to the witness stand. The
Government regards her as the
key ' ness in the prosecution Of
Langdon. Prosecutor John j. Viii.
son announced he expects to close
his case this afternoon.
Prior to that, Inspector Kelly
said, Langdon declared he saw a
man leave the house between l
and 2 o'clock. He described this
man as tall and slender with side
burns and wearing a derby hat.
Langdon was carrying a rs auto
matte pistol when he was taken
into custody on January 2
and another rs automatic was
found in his home, Inspector Kelly
said. Both of these guns were
turned over to Lieutenant Fowler,
hallistics expert, for examination.
There are only 10 witnesses left
to be called by the prosecution,
and it is expected that Assistant
United States Attorney John j.
Wilson, the prosecutor, will finish
his case late this afternoon.
MRS. LANGDON TO TESTIFY
The highlight of the day will
be when Mrs. Rose v. Langdon,
titian-haired eStranged wife Of the
former policeman, takes the stand
to testify against him. .
Mrs. Langdon was arrested in
! New York several months ago on
! q morals charge, and turned over
to Washington detectives. who
have been investigating the Lint
erick case for two years.
Brought to Washington, Mrs.
IAngdon appeared before the
grand jury and following her tes-
timony Langdon was indicted for
the seven-year-old murder.
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1t is expected Mrs. Langdon will
= testify that her husband admitted
to her that he killed the girl in
the drab little house at ID Nine
teenth st. S. E. where she lived
with her brother, Vernon, and a
friend, Richard Reed.
In his opening address to the
jury on Tuesday, Prosecutor VIII.
son declared he would produce o
witness WHO would testify that
Langdon admitted he killed the
girl because she was Squealer."
The defense is prepared to give
Mrs. Langdon gruelling cross
examination, and will probably in
troduce New York police records
In an effort to shatter her credi-
bility.
Inspector Kelly gave a detailed
account Of the investigation OF
the murder, starting on December
81, 1880, when an undertaker'S
assistant discovered a bullet
wound In her head when the body
was being prepared for burial.
The veteran detective told OF
the search of the house for evil
dence, the questioning Of scores
of Beulah's friends, and the arrest
and grilling of Langdon, who was
taken into custody after he had
discovered" a bullet hole in the
mattress on the bed where the
girl was lain and found a .25-
caliber bullet in the floor under
the bed.
Lieut.. John Flaherty, who was
O member of the homicide squad in
1880, was the last witness called
> by the Government yesterday.
and he declared emphatically that
there was no hole in the mattress
or in the floor when he examined
the house on January 1.
POSITIVE IN CLAIM
Lieutenant Flaherty told the
fury that he made a careful exam
ination of the entire house anc
that IF the bullet holes had been
there then I would have found
them"
Langdon asked to be assigned tc
duty guarding the house the night
Of January 2, and the Government
contends that it was while he wa
in there alone that he fired q bull
let through the mattress, ther
PLANTED the empty shell IN 9
coffee cup In the kitchen, ther
told other officers that he hac
discovered it.
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