The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-24
POLICE EXPRESS
CONFIDENCE IN
PROVING A CASE
Instead of Waiting, to Ask
for Special Grand Jury
On Thursday
REV. RICHESON is
ALSO CONFIDENT
Issues First Statement Of
lnnocence--Fiancee Is
Thought to Be On
Way to Chicago

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\ telegram from Boston last
night stated that the father Of
the Rev. Richeson would arrive
there To-day. accompanied by two
lawyers from Virginia.
message from Lynchhurg
stated that 1t was reported thero
that John l.. Lee. who has app
peared In a number OF prOEni.
neat murder trials in Virgins,
had been engaged, but the re-
port could not be confirmed, AZ
Mr.. Lee was not In Lynchburg.
Mr.. Lee arrived In Richmond
yesterday morning, spent . short
while at Murphy's Hotel and left
ON an afternoon train for the
North.
BOSTON, MASS, Oct. 23.-"Ws Wilt
show the grand jury that Avis Linnsll
met the Rev. Clarence v. T. Hiohsson
on Saturday, October "A, only lew
hours before she took the fatal poison.
believing it to be medicine. We will
also show that she met woman ffiend
after leaving the clergyman and con-
fidsd that she had been with him. The
girl told this witness that Hicheson
had given her Acknowledgement
Of Chief Watts. Of the Boston Bureau
Of Criminal investigation, who alleges
that his evidence proving murder
against the clergyman 10 now prao-
ticalIy complete.
~ am innocent and will prove am
in no way responsible for the awful
erire Of which | am~charged, when the
proper time comes to furnish such
proof. Of Rev. Clarence v.
T. Richeson, made from cell No. AZ,
Murderers' Row. Charles Street jail,
to- day.
These statements briefly summarize
the Developments of to-day in the re-
markable poison mystery which has
shaken Boston to it's very foundations.
The police are confident that they have
sufficient evidence against Rev. Mr..
Richeson TO Justify the district attor-
ney Of Suffolk county to present tho
case to a special grand jury without
delay.
The Rev Mr. Richeson. who Is
charged with giving cyanide of potas-
sum to his former fiancee Avis Linnell.
that he might marry the wealthy Miss
Violet Edmands, is defiant and with
the aid of counsel employed by the
wealthy Edmands family is working
day and night in his cell to establish
a defense that will clear him OF the
allegations set up by the police.
Police Confident.
So confident are the police that they
have secured sufficient evidence to in-
sure the indictment OF Mr.. RicheSon
that District Attorney Pelletier was
brought into the case to-day. Chief
Dugan and Medical Examiner Leary.
who performed the autopsy on Avis
Linneil spent the entire afternoon with
the county prosecutor
The result WAS announcements
that the evidence against Mr. Richie
son Will be pla ced before n special
grand jury on Thursday of this week.
This action was a complete surprise
TO the lawyers retained for the defense
Of the pastor His hearing was set
down for October 3tst. the day on
which he was to have been married to
Violet E,dmands.
II the Indictment is returned as ex-.
pected. Richeson will merely be brought
into court on the day set for the hear
ing and rearrested. The prosecutions
will. by this clever move not he CONF
PEELED to show its strength on that
occasion,
Mysterious Movements.
The mysterious movements about
the Edmands mansion on Chestnut
Hill this afternoon indicated that Misn
Edmands, the affianced bride OF MI,
Richeson, was being hurried away
from Boston. Friends of the family
state that she was in a critical state
Of mind, but It could not be estah-
lished definitely that she has gone.
Early In the day a telegraph mes
senger was summoned to the Hotel
Bellevue by man whom he believed
to he Moses q. Edmands and given
an envelope containing two railroad
tickets from Boston to Chicago. with
instructions to deliver them at the
Edmands residence. He did 80, TAX
son. a maid Through the windows
of the mansion uniformed nurse
could be seen fitting about from rooHn
to room.
Later In the day a closed carriaeo
drove up. From ii aiighted q veited
young woman attired in black. She
carried a leather suit case.
At 4.25 this afternoon the family
coachman drove to the door again.
Two women. both heavily yelled and
with suit cases, left the house and
entered the coach, which was driven
In the direction OF the Boston and ALI
bany station at NewtonviIle. One ~
the young women Is believed to have
been Miss Edmands.
Asks for Breakfast.
''T am ready for my breakfast. ana
by the way. bring me all the naxA@3
papers" This was the greeting tN
the guard given by MIR. KieheaaA All
the Charles street Jail this naorninx.
The young minister arose earlxs
donneu "a dark new snit. which had
i-,la brought Ia the jail rs his nrp&
petttSe father-iH claw. Moses ~. ksSl-
mands. ami combed his hair yNkX
carefully lie requested the EuNf4
10 get his breakfasi from either tAaM
TIE prison kitchen. which liz MINE
lexe arranged BY Moses a. EdmAri1&s
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