The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-20
Dvered in Pool of Blood in Prison Cell Suffering Torture From Self Inflicted Wound in Region of in--Huried Operation Saves His Life--Au1honties Say His Trial Will Proceed on Jan. I5, Date Originally Set Counsel For Ac- cused Refuse to Discuss Case

returned to his home for the hOH- days. Neither MT. Dunbar nor MT. Morse would make statement
 It has recently been reported that the wealthy Edmands family turned against Richeson, although he was engaged to Miss Vio'et Edmands at the time the dead girl was found dy- ing from cyanide of potassium in the great fear that has overcome Riche- son, due to the tightening States cir cumstantiaI : evidence, is believed to shave prompted his desperate act.
 Every element of mystery possible to conjecture is woven into the story of the life of Richeson and the death of Avis Linnell- It began in a little love affair back in the Cape Cod vil- lage of .Hyannis and ended in the girls tragic death in Boston. The story runs the gamut of human emotions.
 Two years ago, when Rev. Riche- son was graduated only a few months from thes Newton Theological Semin- ary, he was called to the pastorate of the Hyannis Baptist church, where Avis LinneH was one of the prettieSt of the younger bells.
 Richeson soon became social fa- vorite in the village and it caused no comment that he was seen cosntantly a formal announcement of an engage ment though everyone in the town spoke of the match.
 Miss Linnell joined the church. In 1910, the girl began wearing hand some diamond engagement ring She told her friends she was to marry Richeson in October, 1911
 Meantime, there came dissension tn Richeson's church. In April, 1910 he resigned and came to Boston. Then he received call to the uItra-fash- ionaEle Emmanuel Baptist church in (yor or,,H,r doo vie inn roy me to Boston and entered the Conser7a- tory of Music. She told her friends she wanted to fit herself to assist her future husband.
 Then Richeson met Miss Violet Ed mands. Dazed by the wealth, culture Richeson forgot: the Linnell girl. But he never told this little Hyannis girl of his love for Miss Edmands
 It is satd Miss LinnelI never knew of Richeson's engagement to Miss Ed mands, though it was publicly an- nounced in March, 1911.
 RicheSon returned to his pulpit in September, after. vacation, and Miss Linnell to her studies. On October IA Miss Bnnell told her friends that she gentleman .friend'', as she always re- gentleman friend'', as sh ealways re- ferred to Richeson. No one saw the girl with RicheSon at lunch that day, if she took lunch with him. The last time they were seen together was the day before when Miss Linnell, seeing her mother off on a train in the South Station in Boston. returned to meet Richeson, with whom evidently she had an appointment. On Saturday night, following her visit to her sgen- tleman friend'', Miss. Linnell returned to the Y. W. C. A. in high spirits She said she had been given some medicine that would surely cure her of her headaches.
 That night, young women in the Y. w. c. A. heard groans from Miss Linnell's bathroom. Breaking in the door, they found her unconscious. She died before physicians could arrive. Richeson was notified.
 ''Why do you tell me?' he asked. "Did she say anything before she died?"
 It was thought at first the girl had committed suicide, after hearing of R cheson,s engagement to Miss Ed mands. An autopsy, however, re- vealed the fact that she would soon have become a mother. It was prov ed, too that she had been killed by cyanide of potassium. The police in- yestigation centered on Richeson, when Druggist Hahn identified him as the purchaser of cyanide of potassium.