The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-24
Especial to The rimes-pispatcb.l

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BOSTON, Mass. Octouer 23.-A special
Session of the SUFFOLK grand Jury was
called for next THURSDAY to consider
the case OF the Rev. Clarence ". IT.
lticheson. who Is accused OF causing
the death By poison of his former
sweetheart, Avis Linnell. This unex-
pected move by the prosecution is in
tenaed to forestall any possibility Of
the states case being divulGed in de-
TAIL at the nearing scheduled to take
pace in the Municipal Court on Octo-
Der 81.
Assistant District Attorney Iayello
announced that Ricneson would he
trieu not later than the January ses-
sioh or the court. me police have been
ehJoined against talking Iurtner wiuI
newspaper reporters concernlng the
case.
nevertheless, the police have NOT
found the phial or bottle or paper in.
"hieh MISS Linnell carried the poison
10 inc oath room OF the Young No
mems Christian Association rooms. IN
"arrenton Street wnere she died no,
nave they found any one who saw the
couple iunchlnS together on the fatal
saturday nor perhaps. most signincuni
OF all nave tney witness VINO saw
the clergyman give the girl the poi.
SON.
Tells of Powder.
witness mas been found, accordinp
10 me poilce. VINO volunteered the in.
FORMATION that she met and talked
win MISS Llnneii a lew hours before
her death. anu that Miss Llnnen toll
her she nau been out dining with
Kicheson. This Informant is also r..
ported by the police 10 nave said thal
Mss L!nneii tod her that her friend
hau gwen her powuer which sh.
was gong 10 take. ana that she hopeu
~ Nouiu reLevc ner headache
The police declare that Miss Lin
hetl feall%ed at the time She made
TINS statement mat She was going To-
take the powder for an entirely dif
ierent purpose than for headache.
The police are protecting this wit
ness and at the same time trying to
confirm the story.
The defense, as we'll as the prose-
cution, await eagerly the reports from
the Harvard Medical School of analy
SIS OF the dead girls stomach. Drug
eist Hahn ayers that he sold Richie
son cyanide OF potassium enough 10
XIII ten persons. The warrant fixes
fifteen grains as the quantity that
was administered to the girl.
Should the chemists find that the
stomach contains very much large:
quantity OF deadly poison than was
sold to kicheson or more than the
fifteen grains specified In the COM
plant new complication would
arise. which might add to the hopes
of the defense.
The young clergyman Will have
ample financial means for his de-
tense. Ills uncle. DR.. William a.
Rcheson. of Amherst. Va. who is
wealthy. has pledged his fortune. and
Mr.. Edmands father OF Miss Edmands.
whom Richeson was to wed on octo-
Ter 81. is willing 10 DE a contributor
to the defense.
While the State was collecting its
evidence. the Rev. Richason late to-
day faced two leading members of
his church and declared. II am !nno-
cent. and will prove 1t when the time
comes" The two Wen. y. t. Watson.
treasurer. and Il, Il. Hughes. both or
The Emmanuel Baptist Church. OF
Cambridge, visited the accused man
in his cell to-day. as did the Rev.
George Holt the Rhode Island clergy.
man, who is to marry the younger
sister of Violet Edmends. 10 whom
Mr.. Richsson was engaged. The pas.
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