The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-11-02


or Rev. Clarence v. It. Richraon.
salu today; II know my boy cnn't
De guilty OF numbering Avis IA1-
nell. It doesn't run in his blood
camo to Boston for the love
OF my boy. But am an old AL
der and L want TO say. -poakir-
as one, that IL Clarence is RufItV
OF this, tho most deePicable crime
CNcr charged to = man, he f. no
son OF mine. II he should be
guilty, then let the law take its
course. 1 am here to protect nv
boy and everything that his old
DONE" "0
BOSTON, NASS.-pecial.- A love
ie'tsf written TO the Rev. Clarence
" L Rlcheson by Avis Lnnell forms
me pest defense that has yet devel-
Opeu IN connection with the charge
made against Richeson of having not
soned Miss Linneu.
Inc letter was found among Richie
son effects at his home. In il ac
cording to one OF the lawyers inter
ested in the defense, Miss Linnen asks
1he minister, as a friend in whom
she could trust, to meet her and talk
with her about a serious trouble she
was in.
This letter" said a person close TO
the defense, was found in Mr.. RICHIE
son room before the police got there.
ana is now in the hands OF his attor
neys- 1t will prove, with other e1.i-
dence we have found. that Mr.. Richie
son was not responsible for Miss Lin
nellS trouble"
The body OF Miss LinneI will be
eXhumed today in the little cemetery
at Hyannis and brought to Boston
10y the prosecution. The body is to
De taken from the grave upon the
ORDER or District Attorney joseph {,
Pelleter. ~
We wish to account for every atom
OF the cyanide, which, we believe
Richeson gave the girl" said Denutv
superintendent Of Police watts 70,
day, in discussing the elimination
Further than this 1 can say nothing
at the present time"
Richeson's Father Arrives.
THOMAS Varland Richeson. who
reached Boston late last night from,
his home in Amherst county. Va 70
take up the battle for the life and
nperty OF his son, declared today that
ne would fight TO the last drop OF his
blood for my boy il he is innocent
OF the heinous crime charged against
nm, put mat II he is guilty the law |
should take its course.
The aged father did not mean ~
lntlmate that he admitted the possi |
ollity of his son being guilty. He he
lleNes that his son is innocent. anf
lnat IL VIII be proven.
am in Boston to save my bow"
ne ueclared. 1 know he is not guilty.
lie can't be guilty; il doesn't run i'm
MS blood. 1t would kill me should
ne be convicted more certainly than
L would HIM"
me accused pastor made two state
nents about his own case. one OF
ne statements he made TO Violet Ed
hahds last week, as he was helms
AIKEN from the Brookline home of his
lahcee and the girl lay sobbing.
Don cry, Violet" the preacher
ana TO her, everything will come out
To friend who visited hin, IN tbo
-harles street jail, believed to be Ed /
Nlh ;. Watson, treasurer Of the I'm
manuel Baptist Church of Cambridge
II which the Rev. Mr.. Richeson is
III pastor in spite of the dark cloud
I l; movers over him, the clergyman |,
diu; i am innocent, and will prove
when the right time comes
license Claims TO Have Poison.
packing up the faith of the father
n ms son and the assertions of inno-
ehce or the son himself, is evidence
ana 10 be in the hands of the de-
Shse already, consisting, it is de-
Jared. of the cyanide of potassi,,,,, .
Iidt hlcheson bought from Druggist ! ]
iahn. OF Newton Center. and the 5oo {
nat Richeson said he wanted to xiii '
Is reported that the defense has !
ne Wal OF poison and that it was OBJ ;
aimed from Richeson's room on Me-
zine Street, Cambridge. !
Wheh the police Headquarters de- 7
ecuNe went to this room after the '
rrest OF Richeson they found that
oIte one mad been there and dis !
urDed things. 1t is now believed ~, J
he prosecution that this was a 5etac'
I've working in the interest of Richie y
on Druggist Hahn will he caIIed q
pom TO snow just how much cyanide
I POTASSIUM he sold Richeson. Then b
ne STATE Will try to show that Avis .
.lhheI TOOK fifteen grains If the de- !
ense should prove that no cvanida Of q
otdsSiuin is missing from the bottle I z
no that the filled bottle contains The X
an1e hnd or cyanide Of potassium
nat Ram sold, it would be a great G
ONT IN favor of Richeson. r
Dog Also Important.
Then comes the dog story
ram says that Richeson declared a
e wanted to kill a female dog. The
eiense will deny part of this story c.
Is said. They will admit, probable n
lat Richeson said that he wanted to G
Ill an annoying dog-and thew will .
reduce the dog in court. =,
RMS dog is four-months-old Ros- Il
IN terrier. 1t belongs to Frank III u
arter, with whom Richeson rooBed -
me dog, Carter will testify. an
oyeu the preacher, and ii NAV be O
'stlned that he threatened to kill II n
ut this is a male dog, and the fur D
Ter 1act remains that it is alive. N
Here two questions arise: r
II Richeson wanted to kill Car =
II dog, why did he tell Hahn n "
did tell him, as the druggist de- I,
ares, that the dog was a female? "
The second question is: Il
If Richeson wanted to kill Carter,s L
og why didn't he do it after buying Y
lie poison? All he would have had 81
DO was to open the dogs mouth o,
nd place pinch OF the poison on j,
le dogs tongue and that would have s.
lished him. m
Besides these things that the de- q
nse VIII marshal in favor of Richie G
n, IT will follow the line, it is be- A
:ved, that proved successful in the N
lal or Hattie Blanc. charged with 81
e murder OF Clarence f. Glover. y
ley will introduce another man and "A
aim that he, and not Richeson, had1 r.