Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18

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and Vernon rented the house in No.
vember, 1880. and two weeks later
Beulah moved in to keep house fol
them.
Had Several Dates.
Mr. Reed told the jury he had sew.
eral dates with Beulah in the summer
Of 1880, but did not 60 out with her
after that. He was questioned in de-
tail by Mr. Wilson as to the location
of furniture. doors and windows in
the room where the girl was killed
Mr. Wilson showed particular interest
in a partition dividing the bedroom
from the kitchen and in the location
OF doorway between the two rooms.
The Government contends that
Langdon, the cop on the beat" shot
the girl to death few hours after
Paddy left her home because she was 9
"squealer" who had threatened to
have him discharged from the force or
at least transferred to another part OF
the city.
Assistant United States Attorney
Wilson told the jury of IL mer
in his opening statement yester-
day that he would offer evidence to
show Langdon sought to use his status
as a policeman to prove an alibi and
that he later admitted he killed the
girl because she was "squealer."
Many Examined for Jury.
Mr.. Wilson and Defense Attorney
Kelly finished their opening argu-
ments late yesterday.
Mr.. Kelly told the jury he would
establish the defendants whereabouts
on the night Of the murder and prove
that his interest in the Limerick house
was due to complaints that the place
was a nuisance He said Langdon
had the place under observation be-
cause of his duty as q patrolman to
keep order on his beat.
Mr.. Wilson, however. said Langdon
made three report calls to his precinct
between and 4 o'clock on the morn
ing of the murder which he sought to
have recorded as coming from other
boxes on his beat. Instead, the prose-
cutor said, all the calls were made
from "Box No. H." at Eighteenth and
East Capitol streets. little more than
a stones throw from the Limerick
home
We will show you that between
2:30 and 3 o'clock of that morning
Langdon shot the girl with .25-
caliber pistol" Mr.. Wilson told the
Jury. THE shot was heard by pass
ing milkman, who is a Government
witness.
LangdOn Had Car.
AT that time, Langdon had his
automobile on his beat with him,
which was against police regulations.
Within three or five minutes after the
shot, an automobile was seen leaving
a roadway from behind the Limerick
home"
Testimony of the milkman. Donald
E. Boyer, is regarded as important
since it may establish the time and
place of the shooting, two circum-
stances disputed in the past. At the
first investigation no one could be
located who had heard a shot, and
detectives could not wholly discard the
possibility that the girl was killed
elsewhere and carried home
The prosecutor also charged that
Langdon drove to the house of a
friend, and asked him to say, if ques-
toned, that Langdon was at his house
between midnight and 3 am.
Langdon has admitted, according to
Mr.. Wilson, that he si1ined his flash
light through the window of Miss
Limerick's room at 3:45 am, and saw
her lying on the bed as if asleep.
Says He Sought to See Body.
The prosecutor said that after an
undertaken discovered a bullet hole in
the back Of Miss Limerick's head,
Langdon went to the funeral parlor
and asked permission to see the body
This was refused.
Later at the precinct, the prose-
cutor said, Langdon volunteered to
guard the deathhouse on the night
after the murder. although he was
supposed to be off. Mr.. Wilson said
two officers who drove by to take Lang
don some food we're informed that he
had discovered new evidence"
Langdon, it was said, pointed to
what appeared to be bullet hole In
the mattress on which the body was
found He then found a bullet hole in
the floor beneath the bed, and, going
to the basement, Mr.. Wilson said, sifted
some dirt and produced q bullet.
According to prosecutors statement
Iangdon also said he had found an
exploded shell in q partially filled cof-
fee cup. Langdon initiated the bullet
and shell and turned them over to de-
tectives. The latter had thoroughly
searched the premises without finding
this evidence"
Judge Makes Putout.
NEW YORK @.-Alfred Mellow