The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-07
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ACCEPT IT
&Ms
RiCheson's Church Votes Against
Acceptance Of Resignation
ONE WARRANT IS DISMISSED
Record Of Lower Court in Linnell Muir.
der Case Closed--Matter Now
Rests with Superior
Court.
ONE WARRANT is DISMISSED

Of Emmanuel Baptist church, Cambridge,
last night voted not to accept the resig-
nation of Rev. c, V. T. Richeson, ae-
cused of the poisoning of Avis Lin
nell
When the matter of accepting the
resignation was opened il became APP
parent that the society was divided
upon the subject. The women of the
church predominated in the attendance
and for the most part they supported
their pastor. Many were crying and
some of the men shed tears as the con.
troversy waxed warm.
A vote being called after two hours
of discussion, 80 voted against accept
ance and Is for. 1t was then voted to
lay the matter on the table. The sec
rotary OF the society was instructed to
notify Mr.. Richeson of the action
The Brookline Baptist church, at
which Moses Grant Edmands and his
daughter, Violet, who was to have mar,
ried the Rev Mr.. Richeson on Octo-
Der 81, attend, also sent eommuniea-
tion to the Emmanuel church which was
read last night as follows;
Greetings, dear brethren. We send
you our love and sympathy in your Sc
we're trial and our prayer Is that the
great head of the church may sustain
and guide you in all your ways"
In the municipal court, yesterday aft
ernoon, Assistant District Attorney La
yelle moved that the case OF the COM
monwealth VS.. Clarence V. I. Richeson.
charged on a lower court warrant with
the murder of Avis Linnell, be dismissed
because of the indictment of the ac-
cused on the same charge by the grand
jury, The case was thereupon dismissed.
A warrant against Richeson was is
sued by the municipal court shortly aft
er the minister's arrest in Brookline,
and he was held on the warrant until
the action of the grand jury placed the
case in the jurisdiction OF the superior
court. When the case came up for hear
ing in the lower court it was continued
until to-day to permit the grand jury
to conclude its investigation.
Yesterdays action by Assistant Dis
triet Attorney Lavolle closes the record
of the case in the municipal court and
the matter now rests wholly with the
superior court.
At the request of Congressman Rob-
ert 0. Harris, of counsel for the inn
prisoned minister, District Attorney Pei
letter yesterday caused the postponement
for one week of the arraignment which
had been scheduled for yesterday.
Mr.. Harris said Sunday afternoon that
he did not know whether or not the
defense had in its possession letter
which, it is rumored was written by
Avis Dinnell to Mr.. Richeson in which
she is said to have declared that il he
did not marry her she would commit sui
eide with poison. He said he had never
heard of such a letter, and thought it
might have been the outgrowth of some
body's imagination, although admitting
at the same time that he was not in
close touch with all the details of the
defense.
1t is believed that one of the things
carried away from the Garter home by
Detective Robert Burns was this let
ter in which It is said Avis Linnell
threatened suicide. The police learned
upon searching the Carter home that
some one had been through the Rev.
Mr. Richeson's rooms and virtually
cleaned them out, which leads to the
belief that even before they arrested
the minister at the home of Miss Ed
mands, after the "all night vigil"
detective firm in Boston had been en-
ployed to look after his interests.
Opposing the suicide theory, the POI
lice declare that there was every evil
dence by certain preparations that Avis
Linnell had made in her room at the
Young Womens Christian association in
Boston that the girl did not contemplate
killing herself, but that she took the
poison believing that it was a medi-
cine.