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minutes after the girl had been found un-

conscious.
Medical Examiner Lcary was notified
aud despatch was sent to Miss Jinnells
father. Meantime Miss Inez Hnnscomb.
at the request of Miss Patterson, en-
dcavorcd to communicate with Mr.. Richie
son. knowing that he and Miss I.innell
were understood to he engaged. When
he finally called on the telephone this was
the conversation according to Miss Hans
comb
This is the Rev. Mr.. Richeson"
This il Miss Hanscomb. at the y. W
c. A., Boston. | called you TO inform YOU
that Miss Linnell has died here and that
we want you to come Immediately so that
you may arrive 10y the time the medical
examiner arrives
Miss I.innel is dead? But why did you
call me-"
because you were the only friend OF
Miss Linnell near AT hand and because we
felt that you should know of the fact that
you might come at once Miss 1innell
spoke Of but one man as her tianc" and
she mentioned your name at all times
Il remember that | baptized Miss Lin
nell at Hyannis three years ago. know
her folks at Hyannis. where | used to
preach, but do not know why ] should
he called in regard to the matter. You
know the names Of her parents. do you
not?"
-We do. but we felt that since you were
her fiance and she was ont to lunch with
you to-day it was right that we should
notify you at once. particularly as you
were the most easily accessible Of all her
relatives and friends
~ 70 Igit n
do you mean 10y that? was not at lunch
with Miss Linnell to-day"
well. the medical examiner will soon
be here and there is but little time for
you TO get here IL you are coming"
did she say anything before she died.
"The question took me entirely Ivy
surprise. coming from clergyman and
the fiance of girl who had just passed
away" said Miss Hanscomh. Il hardly
knew what said. but | retorted: No.
she didn't say anything before she died
but she said something this afternoon.
There the conversation came to an end
Miss Lucille Ziegler had been standing
at my elbow all through 1t. and she as
we'll "a was at "A loss to account for the
clergyman demeanor We had but
few words concerning the conversat ton
at the time because the excitement was
so intense that we had little time to dis
cuss anything 1t was time for action
and not for words"
Medical Examiner Leary examined
the body and took note Of the condition
Of the bathroom. picking up a small piece
of white paper in which the poison had
evidently been contained. For some
reason information of Miss Linnell' 8
DnllCa
day night or else II was withheld from
the reporters, for il was not until Sunday
afternoon that an account o' the girl
: death appeared on the blotter at head
Quaru0s. 1t was pronounced TO be a
case of suicide and Medical Examiner
Leary, who had performed an autopsy
that day, said death was due TO cyanide
OF potassium.
Chief inspector Dugan says the news
papers We're purposely misled on Monday
morning when they printed the state
ment that the girl killed herself upon
reading IN n local paper of the enga ge-
ment Of Mis- Edmands and Richeson.
He was at that time gathering evidence
in the case with the idea ot bringing a
charge OF murder.
On Monday afternoon il became known
that the police considered II case Of
murder. The report of the Medical
Examiner was that he was satisfied that
the case vas not one of s,IlCld" but that
Miss LinncIl had swallowed the cyanide
while sitting with her feet in hot water
with tho idea that ii would have medici-
nal effect upon her.
Richeson was under suspicion then and
Chief Inspector Dugan said frankly that
brutal murder had been committed and
that the gu!itv person was tho one that
furnished Miss Linnell with the poison
Whom will II benefit" was his first in
qury and then began quiet inVestlEa-
ton Of the Cambridge Clergyman, while
fhnr do. .Ik. fi,4 "A a
drugstOrpS in Boston and Cambridge
seeking to find "A clerk who mad recently
sold cyanide To any one inns inquiry
did not prove successful.
According TO Frank II Whit>. with whom
Richeson boarded al Cambridge, the
latter left the house in the forenoon oi
Saturday. saving he would not return &
lunch and did not appear again untl! u
o'clock that night. In the evening MT
White received the death message 10y
telephone for Mr. RlCh"son, and gong out
repeated il by phone to the clergyman "A
some house IN Rrookline, Later Ri4Ie
son returned to the hon.e and tien wen
out for few minutes.
Mrs. Edmand' says Rlcheson was a
the house in Brookine from noon las
Saturday until o clock. when he returned
to Cambridge.
During the SUNDAY morning service
Richeson alluded TO the death of dea
friend. and when asked by member o
~
he replied thar il wH- some one he ha'
known at Hvanni5. Rich"sun went tror
the church 20 the home Of Frank Riley
a member of the church, in Somerville.
-Mr Richason went into IN" parlnr,
eaid Mrs Riev to-day. and found hin
a few minutes later lying on the couch
/ cav that he was very paN and aske'
him IL he was i'll He said that he had re
ceived news Of the death of very dea
friend. | asked him if | could get hin
something to relieve him. He asked m
il had any camphor in the house, l re
piled that | had none. but perhaps tn
smelling salts might help him. He agreed
and got them for him
Dinner was not served until 2 80 O'Clock
and Mr. Richeson ate hardly half doze
mouthfuls. He seemed to be suferin
from O nervous breakdown, He spok
further Of the death Of his dear friend
He said thai he had received word by telt
phone thai she had died in convulsior
and that he had been asked IL he was wit
her on the previous Saturday Afternoon
He said that he was not"
On SUNDAY night Richeson went TO IN
home Of Miss Edmands, his fiancee,
Rrooklina. aud reuained there in secll
sion until yesterday afternoon, when !
accompanied Mrs. Edmands to the ,ofiic
OF a BOst1n lawyer, returning to the hout