The Washington times., 1911-10-22
RICHESON IN JAIL
SENDS NO WORD
TO CONGREGATION
All Reference to Plight of
Pastor Omitted at Cam
| bridge Church Services.
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tent in the belief that the popular
young pastor of the Cambridge I'm
manuel Baptist Church. who is In a
cell at the Charles street jail, charged
with the murder Of nineteen-year-old
Avis Linnell, will have to face the
most convincing series Of facts ever
brought in a prosecution under the cir
cumstantial evidence laws. SO
Deputy superintendent William B.
Watts this morning to a correspondent
Of the Munsey News Service stated fiat
ly that he has in his possession the
stenographic story Of Boston young
woman who came into his office with
facts which will forge the missing link,
without which the police prosecution
would have been considered doubtful
by legal authorities.
Girl Makes Disclosure.
This young woman, whose name and
address the police head is protecting
under promise to shield her from no.
;toriety until the time of the trial com-
pels the disclosure. made a statement
which connects the pastor alleged to
tsssu% axd soms time % previess to xii @ tsn
men, with the murdered girl on the
afternoon Of the day of her death, Oc-
According to her story, she met the
Linnell girl on the afternoon Of Oc-
tober IL on the street near the Aoung
Women's Christian Association rooms
on Warrenton street, and had talk
"Where have you been. Avisr she
was asked.
"I have been out to lunch with Mr..
Richeson," answered the Linnell girl
n hn a nd
am going back to the rooms now"
She told this witness where they had
dined, but the police are Withholding
avoid He Dased ss In wSen Sener the
case is called. The theory of the po-
lice Is that the Linnell girl had in
her possession f;as at the time Of her CON
paper which had been given to her
that noon. This powder. according to
the police deductions. was given her
harmless drug which she was to
take to remedy her physical condi-
ton. which had been abnormal for
tour Ms ensnds Of ana IN ss
i,iark about the headache Is alleged
to have been an inspired one. with
the hope that II she were seen taking
she could explain it by the head
ache excuse.
Calls 1t Cold -Blooded Plot.
Chief Dugan, the veteran homicide
expert of the Boston force, who has
personally handled more murder cases
than any official in this country,
characterixes the death of Miss Lin
nell as the most mysterious and cold
blooded plot to end a human life In
his entire career: ,-r-,,,.- 49, -. -.
was fiendtsh;" he said to the Munsey
News Service correspondent this
forenoon in summing up the case.
noan pst Sd it. tnrastsn. sts Is not girl ony IN to
that of her family in Hyannis but
upon the man who placed her In the
"Our total investiEa ton brings but
one man into her personal life for a
year previous to her death. This man
the to be
gagged to the Llnnell girl, had in
reality been engaged since last spring
to Miss Violet Edmands. heiress to q
family. the head Of which is a retired
Thus we have the motive:
Now comes the crime. incidentally
this crime would never have been dis
covered or even suspected but for the
fact that the young woman: IN taking
the drug. tried TO aid herself by an act
she must have learned from some other
source than the murderer, who gave
her the cyanide. She filled bathtub
with hot water. in which she immersed
her limbs. after laying out clean gar
"The murderer had not planned on
this. His theory. and 1, characterize
It as fiendishly cunning. was that she
prepar,ng 9aa ng" to retire. I p Because of Of her her
Condition, 1t would be considered by
every one to be case Of suicide.
1T the man who killed the Linnell
rtrl t~ h> r{o n ha
Shouldn't will be on the mute testimony
of that tub filled with hot water. which
indicated that suicide was the farthest
thing in the girls mind at the time she
which she unwittingly swallowed"
q Aided BY the Newspapers.
Chief Dugan is elated over the multi
tude of facts which have been un-
earthed for him by the newspapers,
saying again today that he wants ia
thank the press for its cooperation,
and that their discoveries have revealed
more than the work OF the force
"But for the newspaper stories Drug
gist Hahn. who claims that he sold
poison to the Rev. Richeson for the pur-
pose of disposing Of dog, would never
Linnell girl could have had any con.
nection with the purchase by the min.
ister."
The minister. who was arrested Fri.
day morning at the home of his fiances
in Brookline, where he had secluded
himself after the stories were published
explaining his known intimacy with the
dead girl is In cell at the Charlie.
street jail.
Yesterday afternoon he was visited
by Moses g. Edmands, father of the
girl to whom he was engaged, and an.
other minister from the First Baptis,
Church, of Cambridge.
Although Mr.. Richeson has the righ
to send out for food and delicacies. hs
has not yet done so. The newspaper,
are available to him. but the grin
keeper at the door Of the big institution
under orders from the prison commits
sioners. placed in force year ago, /.
not allowed to divuge any inkling o.
what transpires within. II is known
however, through members of the tai
stan. that the minister Is remaining
calm and thoughtful under the straiI
OF the most severe accusation that car
he made. and for this reason tha rnlioI