The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-27
GRAND
Up CASE
Witnesses for Defense as Wei
as for Government Called
to Testify.

Boston. Mass. October 2s,-The spo.
cial session OF the Suffolk county grand
Jury. which to-day considered the EVIL.
oence against the Rev. Clarence ". Il
Richeson in connection with the death
by poisoning Of Miss Asre LinneiI
ssumed something OF tho aspect OF {
1riai, because witnesses for the defense,
as we'll as government witnesses. wore
called. In all. moro than a dozen per-
sons wero examined, including three
directly connected with the defense
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Grant Edmsnds
parents OF Miss Violet Edmands, tine
accused clergyman'g hancee, and Rob
ert Burns. head OF a local detective
agency, employed in behalf of Mr
Richeson.
Othor witnesses included Attorney
Peilcuer. Medical Examiner Lenry, Mrs
Edgar Linnell and Mrs. w. II. Mclean,
nother sister OF tho dead girl: two
young women. believed to be cashier
and waitress in q local restaurant
where IT has been said Richeson and
MISS Linnell dined n few hours before
the young oman death: DIR. Mary
Hobart. who attended Miss Linnell,
MISS Juliet c. Patterson, superinteuu-
ent OF he Young Women's Christian
association, where Miss Linnell lived,
and two Of her friends thore: MIR. and
airs. r. II. Carter. at whose residence
Mr.. Richeson had his apartments, and
william IL. Hahn, the Newton Centre
druggist, who says sir. Richeson pur.
CHASED cyanide or potassium from him
several OF these persons may be sum.
moned to appear again, but It Is no
probable that Miss Violet Edmsnds
the minister's nancee, Will be called, a.
she Is confined to her home b. Illness.
a report which came to-day from
New Bedford was that MIR. Richeson,
two days before the death OF Miss Lin
nell, obtained hour and water from
Mrs. Carter. his landlady. explaining
that he wanted 1t TO mix paste TO btnu
Dooks The report had II that upon re-
turning the bowl he told Mrs. Carter:
you'd better wash 1t out thoroughly,
there has been poison In IT,"
Mrs. Carter on leaving the grand
jury room to-day would not discuss
this report, while her husband said he
could neither affirm nor deny IL. II was
learned definitely to-day that Con
gresham Robert o. Harris. OF Bridge
water. has been enlisted In Richeson's
c use.
The plan OF defense Tor Rtcheson
was formulated yesterday after a long
conference.
At this conference were Thomas Var.
land Rlchcson. the aged fuiher OF the
Clergyman. and N. Grant Edmands, the
father of the accused mans fancec.
The defense VIII try to provo an alibi
Tor Richeson oil the day that Avis took
the fatal dose OF cyanide; that the
poison was bought TO destroy a dog
that Rieheson loved Avis until she de-
cided that h could not be a minis
ter's wife; that they still have the
original vial OF cyanide OF potassium
bought By Richeson from Druggist
Hahn.
Miss Lilly Richeson has called on
her brother in his cell. and came away
convinced OF his innocence. She told
him she believed in him absolutely.
and would return to Boston at any
time that her presence would be of
help to him. A few hours later she left
the Parke House and took a train for
Philadelphia.
Colonel Richeson declares he is the