The evening world., 1911-10-30
THAT'S THE MAN,"
SAY 3 GIRLS ON
I SEEING R|CHESON
Mysterious Witnesses Said to
Have Seen Him With Avis
Linnell Day She Died.
GUARDED BY POLICE.
Grand Jury Expected to Find
Blanket Indictment Against
Pastor To-Day.
GUARDED BY POLICE.

BOSTON. Oct. S0.-The Grand Jrry
was expected to find an indictment to-
a against the Rev. Clarence V. T.
iticheson on a charge of numbering
Avis Linnell. the Hyannis choir singer.
VINO died from cyanide of potassium
at the Y. W. G. A. Oct. II. but owing
to reports of new evidence 1t Is pos
sible 1t may not act until wednes-
day or Thursday.
Considerable importance is attached
TO the visit of three young women to
the Charles street jail yesterday in
company with a police inspector.
They were asked II that Is the man"
II was admitted to-day by Chief In
spector Dugan that the girls are three
Mattresses from a restaurant In which
lucheson and Avis Linneil are thought
TO have dined on the fatal Saturday
afternoon. 1t Is said the girls recog-
nized Richeson as having dined at the
cafe Saturday.
1t was apparent early in the day that
the Grand Jury's consideration was to
be devoted almost entirely to the testi-
mony Of Witnesses who either reside or
do business in the vicinity of Emmanuel
Baptist Church. Cambridge. or near the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. +. ii. Carter.
with whom Mr.. Richeson boarded.
Among the witnesses who appeared In
the anteroom of the Grand Jury room
this forenoon were william H.. Green
wood. a close friend Of the Carriers;
Everett Page. a seventeen-year-oid boy.
who Is said to ave seen the accused
clergyman on a street in Cambridge on
the morning Of Friday. Oct. IS. the day
preceding Miss Linnell's death.
II 10 likely Mrs. Linnell may be called
again. She visited her daughter three
days before the latters death. and the
minister met her at the station. she ad-
mitted yesterday for the first time
reading her to believe the meeting was
accidental. The police suspect he had
learned from Avis OF her mothers visit
and met Mrs. Linnell for some special
purpose. The police are anxious to find
out the exact conversation that tool
place.
One report to-day 10 that the Grand
Jury has already had an Indictment
drawn. but has not voted on It. It is be-
lieved the case will establish q precs.
dent in this part Of the country. The
(. Indictment probably vii b. what law
yers call . blanket" bill.
MUST COVER ALL POSSIBLE
MEANS OF CRIME.
There Is no parallel ease in the his
tory Of the State. While there have beer
cases OF murder by poison. there 10 nc
case In which the circumstances are
similar to those In this tragedy.
To Assistant District-Attorney Dwyel
has been assigned the task Of drawinl
any pleading nat may be ordered. Thu
deadly poison was received by the cir
puxslss the prosecution to decide how L
draw . pleading that will hold. In view
Of this. the pleader must set forth
counts based on every conceivable man
nsr In which the cyanide OF potassium
could have got into the girls possession
through the fundamentally OF the maj
to be charged with her death.
One count may charge that Richesor
gave the poison to the girl. one that h,
sent II by mail. another that he de
livered It by messenger. and so on.
In the Rev. Mr.. Richeson's church
the Emmanuel Baptist. in Cambridge
services were conducted yesterday b.
cussd c%lergyman's former teachers a
Newton Theological Seminary. Neithe
IN mayer. hymns 20 sermon was Their
any allusion to the situation OF III,
paStor.