The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-22
ADMITS THAT He IS MEAN ENOUGH
TO GIVE POISON TOA LITTLE PUPPY

ment which Richeson denies, actually
existed; that he gave her ring; that
il the story of his relations with the
girl came out he had every reason to
expect that Miss Edmands would re-
fuse to marry him; that Mrs Carter's
dog was no such animal as the clergy
man described to Hahn, but feeble
puppy which mere kick would prob
ably have killed, not to mention 15
grains of deadly poison; that the pup
py was not, as a matter of fact.
poisoned, though Richeson had ample
time to do it, and that there was, be-
yond any question, a meeting between
the prisoner and Miss Linnell on the
afternoon preceding the latter's death,
at which the preacher had ample op-
portunity to give the girl the poison.
Edmands and Judge Dunbar had a
long interview with Richeson in the
latter's cell in the Charles street jail
this afternoon, but neither the clergy
mans prospective father-in-law nor his
legal advisor would say what was dis
cussed, nor would Richeson receive
any other visitors.
The police say, however, that the
prisoner continues to behave with re-
markable GOODNESS and even indiffer-
ence, 1T is common, however" said
Chief Duran, of the Boston bureau OF
criminal investigation, .'for a prison
er charged with the most unusual
crime to undergo examination un-
flinchingly, though what the subse.
quent effect on him, may be different
matter"
Chief Duran himself is man con
siderably out of the ordinary. In
outward appearance he bears consid
cradle resemblance to the famous In
spector Byrnes, of the New York po
lice department. His methods, how
ever, are decidedly different. Byrnes
was much the typical policeman iT
manner From his we'll modulated
tones and cultured speech, Durar
might also be taken for a college pro
4 fcscr. He is consider ase in Ms hard
/ ling of prisoners and depends NOR,
upon trained intelligence than upoI
strength, in the working out of hi!
problems of detection
Rooms Were Ransacked.
In his Investigation of the Richesol
case his men have already, they say
! crossed the trail of the private de
4 tectives at work in Richeson's behalf
i A search of the clergyman's quarter
with Mrs Carter was depended on
i among other things, for the develor
ment Of important evidence. Instead
it proved quite ineffective. Some one
presumably friend or friends Of th
preacher. had forestalled the officia
investigators. The rooms We're il
great disorder. They had evidently
been ransacked and nothing was foun
in them with the slightest bearing OF
the case they were at work upon.
In their efforts to prove that
meeting took place between Richeso
and Miss Linneil shortly before tn
girl was found dead, the police cor
slider that they have been more sue
cessful. The story told by Mrs.
n Danskin, who lives across tn
street from Mrs. Carter, and says sh
overheard Richeson making an az
pointment over the telephone in he
house for the Saturday afternoon i
question, will, the officers believe. hol
water. Taken in connection with tn
facts that Mrs Danskin says tn
clergyman's conversation was eviden
" with woman, that the number h
asked for was that of the Y. w. G. A
where Miss Linnell lived; that Mis-
Linnell was called to the Y. w. G.
telephone about the same time tha
Richeson was talking from the Dal
skin residence, and that she afte
ward told a friend that she had mad
an engagement to dine with the ma
she expected to marry, Mrs. Dal
skins testimony is considered e,
tremely significant,