The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-26
kcCpSSED Pastor
UAN6ED IN EFFl6Y
Draw Comparison of Their De-
meanors- Feeling Is Strong
Against Imprisoned Pastor.
Miss Edmands, His Fiancee,
Says BE Is Innocent.


the nineteen-year-old music student,
and RicheSon, the clergyman held for
her murder, were together last Sat
urday in the dining room In the Back
Bay district. only few hours before
the girls tragic death.
Chief Dugan declares he has infor-
nation that the pastor and Miss Lin
nell frequently took luncheon OF din
,Gcr together at this restaurant and
that, while their names were appar-
faces were so familiar that there will
be no hesitancy on the part OF the
employees in identifying the photo
graphs OF the accused pastor and OF
the girl victim.
That Avis Linnen was given the
death powder on last Saturday after
noon, with instructions to use il as
soon as possible after she returned
TO the Young Women's Christian As
ISOLATION home on Warrenton Street,
her had full knowledge of it's deadly
nature, viii be establishe8 Chief Du-
gan is confident.
Hanged i'm Enigy.
The Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson
was hung in effigy today in Hyannis
the home town Of the pretty music
student.
Indignation in the town is intense
against the former pastor of the Bap
fist Church.
Guiding his former parishioners, saw
the ef1igy, they made no attempt to
take it down. The figure hung from
the limb Of a huge elm tree in the
yard or the First Baptist Church. of
which the Rev. Mr.. Richeson was
pastor. 1t was fully dressed in derby
hat, white collar, black Prince Albert
coat. corduroy trousers and high black
shoes.
Pinned to the coat was a large pla-
card bearing the name:
The Rev. Richeson."
Nailed to the foot Of the tree was
q large, square board, with the words
in black paint:
Guilty. Read Luke 17-2."
Chapter II, paragraph 2, OF St.
Luke reads:
1T were better for him that mill
stone were hanged about his neck
and he cast into the sea, than that
ones"
Just what time the effigy was hung
is not known. People in the neigh
be-h50d say they heard voices in the
vicinity of the church about o'clock
Found Important Witness.
| Corroborative evidence that Richie
son and Miss LinneIl were together in
the South station I'm the afternoon
and evening OF Friday, October 18th,
is furnished by DR.. Leonard Z. Wolfe,
a dentist Of Dorchester, who says he
| saw couple he is certain were the
i pastor and the young music student
! In the waiting room about s O'Clock
DR.. Wolfe did not know either Miss
/ Linnen nor Richeson. His attention
| first was attracted TO them by the
troubled look on the girls face and
the nervousness and anxiety she man
| Tested in talking to her companion.
| After the news OF the Linnell tragedy
/ became public and photographs of the
4 mi fcfa
published, Dr. Wolfe declared that the
man and woman he saw were the
same. lie is positive he is not mis-
/ taken.
Il was waiting for q train to Quin-
cy," said DR.. Wolfe, "and my atten-
ton was attracted TO a couple who
sat directly opposite me. The girl
| was very pale and my attention was
attracted by the way she looked con-
stantly into her companions face and
picked nervously at his coat sleeve as
she talked. She appeared to be trou-
| bled. heard her ask: Are you, are
your The man wore the expression
OF one in deep thought and appeared
Ito be greatly worried"
a more surprising statement of Dr.
] Wolfe is that the man rode In the
: same car TO Quincy, where he left the
\ train and walked rapidly towards a
Houghs Neck car. DIR. Wolfe did not
see the girl after she and the man
left the waiting room in the South
Station and walked toward the branch
postoffice.
Made Saturdays Engagement.
" hat the police believe to be an
| important disclosure In the case has
been made to them by Mrs. John F.
Danskin, of Cambridge. She told that
| Richeson talked over the telephone
from her home to somebody at the
Young Woman's Christian Association
home in Boston on Thursday after
4 nOnn L
ing an appointment to meet that per-
son on the following Saturday.
The story of the telephone CONVEX
sation as told by Mrs. Danskin to the
police is as follows:
About 6 o'clock in the afternoon
Mr.. Richeson came to our house from
the home OF Mr.. Carter, across the
street rs Mr.. Danskin at homer he
asked. No, he is down at the bake
house, I responded. Nay use your
tainly.' I replied.
Mr.. Richeson sat down at the tel
ephone and at once called for Oxford
22746. He did not look in the phone
book, and perhaps it was this fact
that made me make a mental note
ing an occasional part of his CONVEX
sation, although / paid no especial
attention to 1t.
The minister appeared to be in
/ Jovial mood. He talked in low tone
bot laughed frequently.
, I will see you then, on Saturday,
is one sentence ( could not help hear.
ing. A little later 1 heard him say
1t seems a long time Until Saturday.
{ When the minister hung up the receiver
and thanked me, he left the house di
| rectly.
/ Woman's Curiosity bad fer Pastor.
. Il couldn't help feeling curious al
! to with whom he had been talking
|, and something impelled me to find out
1t took only moment for me to max,
inquiry, and I found out that oxford
22746, is the number of the Young We
mems Christian Association Home, oil
Warrenton Street, Boston"
Druggist Hahn says MT Richesol
told him that he wanted the cyenid
OF potassium to kill a dog. The do,
I idea was suggested to the minister, tn
police believe. by the fact that the Car
. ter family, with whom he boarded Il
Cambridge, owned a dog.
Acknowledgement James +. Swift ma
! enter the case in the interest OF tn
u Commonwealth and assume full charg
t of the prosecution.
: IF the welfare OF the Commonw cal
d demands my presence IN this case shai
= surely take part in it." said Attorney
n General Swift today. AS yet all til