Putnam patriot., 1911-10-20
TOOK POISON
 AS MEDICINE
Mystery Behind Death of lv,
 linHeIl al Boston
GIRL WAS NOT A SUGiDF

u''iI "ho "ot A oUIJiDt Medical Examiner Says She Va. Killed Either by Accident q, n. sisn-ciersyman Who Had Be-, Her Fianee May Be surmones :,
 Testify at Inquest-Drus Store. s.
 ing Prcbed In Search of Inform,,i,, Boston, Oct IS. .-Tremendous sr, prise was caused by the statement q, Medical Examiner Leary last piyb, that Avis Linnell, who was fonrs dead in her room at the Young Wom. en's Christian association. was not suicide, but that she was knss either by accident or design.
 He is certain the girl did not knov the deadly nature of the poison she was taking. He is convinced fron his investigations that she took tba most deadly poison known, under tb4 impression that it was harmless drug.
 The dead girl was found with bs, feet in a bathtub half filled with bot water. She had taken the deadly drug, believing that it was a medlcina that would relieve her illness, accord. ing to the medical examiner.
 The police believe that the girl could not have bought the drug her. self, as her first question would have drawn from the clerk such a warning of the dangers of the drug that f would have dissuaded her from her purpose.
 Chief Inspector Dugan said that f might have been mistake and some. enc gave the girl the wrong drug. He said that if anyone had given her the drug with q fuu knowledge of its fatl effects the person who did so would be guilty of murder.
 Medical Examiner Leary is so sure that there is some awful mystery be. hind the tragedy that he will order an inquest within a few days, when vt, nesses will be summoned.
 It is possible that the girls parents and other friends in Hyannis will be summoned, and also Rev Clarence V. T. Richeson, who had been Avis Ltnnell's fiance, and any others who knew her at home or in Boston.
 Detectives from the local bureau are investigating the drug stores through out the city in an attempt to discover who bought the cyanide of potassium and either sent it to the girl or gave it to her.
 The drug was wrapped in a plain piece of paper, without the name Of any drug store upon it, and without the customary poison sign upon it. The paper was on a table at the head of the bathtub with a few grains Ot the power that caused Ava Linne's death remaining in it.
 None of Miss Linnell's friends at the Young Women's Christian asso- citation or the Conservatory of Music, where she was a student, knew of her having the drug in her possession, and they expressed the opinion that she had received it only a short time before her death. The young woman who was her roommate at the Young Women's Christian association quar- ters said that she had not seen Avs take medicine of any kind.
 While storm of discussion as to Richeson's guilt or innocence is surg ing throughout Greater Boston, ne remains in seclusion at the home d his wealthy fianeee's parents Chestnut Hill, refusing to say won in self defense and declining to see any of his parishioners or friends.
 Will Ask Removal of Pastor
 Hyannis, Mass. Oct. 1S.-Arousea by the tragic death of pretty AVS Linnell. who died in Boston allef learning that Rev. MT. Richeson was to marry another, townfolk are lodge a protest against the clergyman being retained as pastor of the lM' manuel Baptist church of Cambridge A grim faced gatherng of young men awaited Ricbeson at the depot yes terday. But he did not come to al tend the funeral of the girl.
 All the village did honor to ne memory of Miss Linnell yesteTdai ar terncon. Stores in the Centre Nes closed during the funeral services a' her home in HyannisDort HlaasSes of townsfclk gathered at the LiaasA residence to pay their last Te5peai'
 Men as well as women wepi as iaS gazed on the palid. though stiil Seaa- tiful face. Some cried aloud n sls, grief. The dress that Avis Lllasl had so proudly dispiayed as as. chosen wedding gown served as asi shroud. When the friends had olos more gathered outside the house u' most trying incident CT the aEsese ings transpired, the leaye-taklhs 1 the aged mother and father anu us other members of the family.
 Bathtu5 Trust Ruled Iiiesai
 Baltimore, Oct. 15.-An opng- was handed down by Judge ho'e the United States court here, hoiaI. that the so-called "Bathtub trust illegal.