Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-10-24
PASTORS CASE TO
THE GRAND JURY
SPECIAL INQUISITORIAL BODY TO
HEAR STORY OF POISONING
OF PRETTY SINGER.
POLICE GET PROOF
Miss Violet Edmands, Prisoners FL
ancee, Hurried Away From
Boston.

Boston, Oct. 23.-"We will show the
grand jury that Miss Linnell met the
Rev. q. T. Richeson on Saturday, Oc-
tober 10, only a few hours before she
took the fatal poison, believing it to
be medicine. We will also show that
she met a woman friend after leaving
Mr.. Richeson and that the lady is con-
fident that she had been with him. The
girl told this witness that Richeson
had given her medicine This was the
statement of Deputy Sheriff Watts, of
the Boston Bureau of Criminal Inves-
tigation who alleges that his evidence
proving murder against the clergyman
is now practically complete.
81 am innocent and will prove that
I am III no way responsible for the
awful crime with which I am charged,
when the proper times comes to fur
nish such proof" This was the
statement of Rev T. r. Richeson made
from cell No. AZ in Murderers Row
in the Charles Street Jail today
These statements briefly summar-
ize the developments of today in the
remarkable poison mystery which has
shaken Boston to its very founda
tons. The police are confident that
they have sufficient evidence against
Richeson to justify to District Attor-
ney to present the case to a special
grand jury next Tuesday.
The Rev. Richeson, who is charged
with giving poison to Miss Linnell,
his former sweetheart. that he might
marry the wealthy Miss Violet Ed
mands, is defiant and with the aid of
counsel employed by the wealthy Ed
mands family is working day and
night in his cell to establish defense
that will clear him of the allegations
set up by the police.
So confident are the police that
they have secured sufficient evidence
to insure the indictment of Richeson
that District Attorney Pelitier was
brought into the case today. Chief
Dugan and Medical Examiner Leary,
who performed the autopsy on Miss
Lnnell, spent the entire afternoon
with the prosecutor The result was
announced that the evidence against
Richeson will be placed before a spe
cial grand jury on Thursday of this
week. This action was complete
surprise to the lawyers retained for
the defense of the pastor. His hear
ing was set down for October 81, the
day on which he was to have been
married to Miss Violet Edmans.
If THE indictment is returned as ex-
pected, Richeson will merely be
brought into court on the day set and
be arrested The prosecution will,
by this clever move, not be cOmpell-
ed to show it's strength on that oc-
casion.
The mysterious movements about
the Edmands mansion on Chestnut
Hill this afternoon indicates that Miss
Edmands, the affianced bride of Richie
son, was being hurried away from
Boston. Friends of the family state
that she is in critical state of mint
and it could not be established defin
itely that she had gone.
EARLY in the day telegraph mes
senger was summoned to the Hote
Bellvue by man who is believed II
be Moses G. Edmands and given al
envelope containing two railroa'
tickets, from Boston to Chicago, wdtl
instructions to deliver them to TIN
Edmands mansion He did so. TAX
ing the receipt of Miss Edna Robin
son, a maid. Through the window
of the mansian, uniformed nurse
could be seen fitting about from room
to room.
Later in the day closed carriage
drove up. From it alighted a yelled
young woman, attired in black. Sne
carried a leather suit case. AT 4:3s
this afternoon the family coachmar
drove to the door again. Two women
beth heavily yelled and with suit
cases, left the house and entered the
coach which was driven = the aire'
ton Of tho pcston and t'Nans' sfaticr
at Newtonvillc One o. the women I