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the house last Saturday said she had beer

dining with the clergyman.
To-day the police found the restaurant
whore they say Richeson took the young
woman for lunch and a quiet talk. but its
location was not given to the n" r.soapers.
nor would tho police tell to whom Miss
Linnell spoke Of her doings that day.
Miss Nellie Barkhouse OF Hyannis, who
lives at the Y. ". G. A. wrote to her sister
the day after the tragedy and ment icned
that Avis had lunched with Richeson
Later Miss Barkhouse denied writing the
letter. then admitted II and finally said
that she had no authority for saying that
Miss Lnnell and the clergyman had been
together and that it was "A careless re-
mark.
1t is said that Miss Barkhouse based her
authority for the statement on what an
other girl told her and it is believed that
the latter is the person who told the police
OF seeing R,obeson and Avis together in
a certain res:@ rant and of speaking to tn.
latter as ,he -a'sed her table.
Chief Inspector Dugan said to-day that
some one had gone through the rooms of
Rcheson before Capt John McGarr OF
the chiefs staff visited them Yesterday.
Mr.. Richeson's rooms were az li3 Maga-
zine street, Cambridge. the home of Frank
H. Carter.
After Richeson had been taken before
the municipal court and held for hearing
on October 81. Capt. McGarr went to the
house to look over his effects. II il said
that when he reached the place there was
plain evidence that some one had been
there before him.
Capt. McGarr found nothing in the
rooms that he thought worth carrying
away as evidence in the case. Chief
Dugan said that he had no idea who had
visited the place. Richeson himself was
in the house Of his fiancee. Miss Violet
Edmands. in Brookline. all the time since
last Sunday, II was supposed except for
q trip to Boston Thursday afternoon.
He was away long enough to have gone
to his lodgings as well as To visit a Bost on
lawyer.
have not the least idea who il was who
went to the house" said Chief Dugan.
before Capt. Mc(;arr got there. But
evidently some one did. When Capt.
McGarr got there there was confusion.
and he did not have TO stay long to dis
cover that he need not waste his time in
searching He found nothing that was
Of value in the nature of evidence"
Richeson tclephoned from the home OF
John F. Danskin. Cambridge, on Thurs
day. October ~. and made an appoint
ment to meet some one who lived at the
Y. W. {. A. house on Saturday. About
6o'clock Richeson crossed the street from
the house where he lived. TO the home OF
Mr.. Danskin. where he asked permission
60 use the telephone. Without looking
at the telephone book Mr. Richeson called
Oxford 2ci5s
Mrs. Danskin. who was near, hea rd
and remembered the number While
seated in the next room she could hear
what was being said by the clergyman. l..
and as he talked for twenty minutes she
became curious and decided to look up
the number when he had gone.
Mrs. Danskin said that the conversa-
ton over the wire was in a happy vein
and Mr. Richeson said at one time. 1t
seems long time until Saturday" which
remark was followed by a merry laugh
Mrs. Danskin called oxford after vain
hunt through the bulky telephone book
trying to locate the number by running
down the pages. and she was informed
that the number was that Of the Young
Women's Christiin Association.
At the Y W. E. 4. Miss Linnel was
called to the telephn one AT about q o'clock
October IL to answer call. being sum
moned by another young woman. and the
length OF time she spent at the instrument
was the cause for some quiet jollying
among the girls when she returned.
When she hung up the receiver she
said to Miss Xegler. who was standing
near by Il have Just made an engage
ment to lunch with my gentleman friend
on Saturday"
There is still lot of mystery. Chief
Dugan said to-day, III regard to the con-
tainer in which the cvanide Of potassium
was carried from the drug store. No
bottle was found in the Y. " {. A. build
ing or anywhere els. that contained that
cyanide SO far a. the police know.
Chief Dugan to-day made "A detailed
statement about tn. reason why the
police when they surrounded the house
of Moses Grant Edmands did not break
in to arrest Mr. Richeson. VINO was known
TO be in the house. Well he said. there
were two reasons. In tn" first place. YOU
will remember. there were three women
in Mr. Edmand-'s house who were in n
serious state from the excitement that
had been occasioned a. a result of the
publications concerning the case Had
we forced an en-. rance the effect of the
extra excitement upon the women could
not have been for.told We had that
sentimental reason. With the house sur
rounded by reporters and everybody III
the house keyed up II would certainly
have been unwi~e 10 enter the house by
force when We wer" satisfied that by
waiting we couIn get the man III the
morning,
Besides. there was tn. legal aspect to
look at. Mr.. RlCh"son was a quest in the
Edmands hOU-s. II vas not his home
Suppose that the family had resisted by
force, under the idea that they had a right
TO protect their own house against lntru-
sion? Suppose here had been some
shooting as a result Tn. owner of the
home might hav. resorted 10 violence
had he felt so disposed To oppose entrance
TO the house. IL is Of course the law that
the police in pursuit of n f"lou have the
right to follow him to any place in which
he seeks concealment But under the cir
Cumstances Of the case il was the discreet
judgment Of the police not TO risk forci-
BILE entrance at that time"
Chief Dugan also explained his reason
for having the statement of Druggist
Hahn taken by a stenographer In his
Office and in the presence Of the defendant
yesterday morning. Mr.. Hahn is recog-
nized as the most important witness in
the case When the case Of Richeson is
brought To trial il for any possible reason
Hahn will not be able to appear his state
ment can he admitted as evidence.
The statement, Chief Dugan said, was
taken purposely in the presence of the
defendant and other witnesses, Besides
il was tak"n down in shorthand by the
stenograp pher In any event. Chief Dugan
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