The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-24
Pastor Richeson of Bap-
tist Church Jailed on
Charge Of Murder
REPORTS SAY He LOVED
ANOTHER SWEETHEART

Man Charged With Disgracing the
Livery of Heaven and Breaking One
OF the Highest Commandments of
God. Arrested by Detectives After q
Week Of Careful Work on the Case.
Preliminary Trial Set for October
s1st. is the Day on Which He Had
Been Engaged to BE Married.
Native of Virginia, Pastor of New
England Church-Detai!s and Par
ticuiars.
(By the Associated Press.)
Boston. Mass. Oct. 20.-A narrow
cell in Charles street jail tonight holds
the Rev. Clarence Virgil Thompson
Richeson, the young pastor Of the
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Cam
bridge, who was arrested today for
the alleged murder Of pretty Avis
rinnell. of Hyannis. Mass, TO whom he
had been engaged. His commitment
to Jail this afternoon without bail
on a charge of first degree murder
marked a temporary end to a chain
of circumstances which police detec-
tives lave followed assiduously since
the death of Miss Linnell last Satur-
day by cyanide Of potassium poison
ing. Miss Linnell, who vas 10 years
of Music, was found dead in the bath
room of the Young Women's Chris
tan Association Home here. At first
the police believed she had committed
suicide, but later developments indi-
Gated that she had unknoW1ngly taken
cyanide OF potassium sent her by
some other person, in the belief that
it would remedy her embarrassing
physical condition.
For several days the police inquiry
made little progress. but Information
received early today that Mr. Richeson
had purchased cyanide of potassium
at a drug store in Newton led the Off
GERS to decide upon his arrest. A dozen
officers, headed by Deputy Superin-
tendent Watts were forced to main
tain an eight-hOur vigil outside thu
fashionable home in Brookline. OF
Moses Grant Edn&ands, iwhere the
clergyman had been staying during
the past week, before the minister was
X into custody, however. Repeat
ed pulls at the door-bells, rappings
and shouts failed to bring any re-
Spouse from those within the house
through the night and the police, who
We're without a warrant, were unWil-
ling to make a forcible entrance.
The Deputy superintendent and his
assistants, with a crowd Of newspapel
men, remained on guard until abou1
I a. M. when they were admitted.
Mr.. Edmands is the father Of Miss
violet Edmands, for whose marriage
TO Mr.. Richeson on October 81 caros
had been issued. Those invitations
were recalled today. The Edmands
family. however. maintains faith IL
Mr.. Richeson and the only
ment in connection with the with
marriage had been postponed.
The setting, Of October 81 as tn
date for a further hearing OF MT
Richeson developed a coincidence II
the fact that that was the DAY oI
which he vas to be married. bu
neither the announcement or the ua.'
nor any other happening in Gomez
ton with his arrest seeme1 20 us
turb the prisoner.
Even when faced by William Hahn
the Newton druggist. who declares
that IsicLeson had purchased cyanlu'
Of potassium from him a week ae'
TuesdnN-the minister was uhpeI
turbed apparently. AS HAM wa
shown into the room at police hedu
quarters Richeson stepped forwar'
and shook his hand. 1t was notlce
able that the druggist was NOR
moved than the accused man. Facln4
the clergyman, Hahn, who mas kho~
Mr.. Richesen for several years to]'
how Eicheson walked into his stor
Tuesday evening, october 10; an
said: i've got a dog at home tina !
creating a disturbance. She Wlf :, .
a nuisance unless [ can XIII ne
soon" MI. Hahn said that ne re