Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-22

ents he had given Miss Howe. according
to the story. and her father retorted with
a counter bill for months board and
nursing that he had required while
ceiving medical treatment. Miss Howe
is pretty girl at present engaged as
stenographer in a state institution.
1t is believed that before Richeson
faces a jury in court scores of other girls
to whom he made love will become
known. The only one. far as known,
that he really came near marrying is Miss
Edmards. That wedding was to have
taken place the last day of this month.
and there is no reason to believe that
Richeson would have backed out. Miss
Edmands is charming girl. a talented
musician and a graduate of Vassar. Also
she is an heiress-
His Health Broken.
Richeson is a physical wreck in the
Jail Snatched from a luxurious bed in
the wealthy Edmands' home he was
transferred to an iron cot in a narrow.
pictureless. uncomfortable. cherries cage
of steel. From dainty food prepared by
direction he had dropped to plain and
unpaiatable prison fare. II was reported
today that special watch had been put
on the preacher to guard him against
suicide. His friends declare that this
precautiOn is unnecessary, and that he
will make no attempt to take his life.
The police who today made a search
or R1cheson's room in Cambridge declare
that it had been thoroughly ransacked
before they arrived. Chief Dugan asked
Lawyer Dunbar # he had been to the
room. The lawyer replied that he had
been there. but found that somebody
had preceded him. An effort is being
made now to solve this new mystery
1t II believed that the searcher, whoever
he may have been. carried away all the
evidence lurking there that would help
to make clear the death of Avis Linnell
The favorite book of the ex-clergyman
was a volume of the weird fantastic
stories of Edgar Allan Poe He took this
volume with him last summer on his
vacation.
Wrote on "Love's Tragedy"
When student at the William Jewell
College at Liberty. No.. he wrote an ar
ticle entitled Loves Tragedy In this
story he expressed belief in love at
first sight. and dealt with the theme in
a manner to indicate that he had given
1t considerable thought.
1t was recalled today that DR.. Ben
nett c. Hyde, tried for the murder of
Col. Thomas H. Swope. the eccentric
millionaire Of Kansas City. was a
student at the William Jewell College
at the same time RichesOn was there.
It was alleged that Hyde killed Swope
with cyanide of potassium, the same
poison that ended the life of Avis Lin
nell.
At Hyannis. the home of Avis Linnell.
the residents are terribly incensed at
Richeson- He was hanged in effigy there
today The figure of man dressed
in a frock coat. and made up to repre-
sent the clergyman, was suspended from
a limb of tree in the church yard of
the Baptist Church. where Richeson
formerly preached. Tackled against the
tree was a placard which read: Guilty.
Read Luke. 11:2."
Those who looked up this quotation
found it to be as follows:
1T were better for him that mill
stone were hanged about his neck. and
that he be cast into the sea, than that
he should offend one of these little
ones"
The effgy was cut down this afternoon
by a member of the church.
Mr.. Richeson is tall, slender and dark.
His Is the fascinating suavity of the
typical southerner. He has the voice
Of well trained actor
Doubted Suicide Story.
When the Monday morning newspapers
printed the story of the death of Avis
IAnnell as suicide they gave as a mo-