The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21

to nave been the bride or the minis ter, on October 31. sits heartbroken BrOokline
 And the third picture is to be seen at the stricken home of Avis Linnell, in the provincial Cape Cod hamlet of Hyannis, Mass, where a mother and father and sisters are pended in woe at the untimely death of happy, laugh ing Avis, who loved not wisely but too trustingly, as many of her kind have done before.
 And, though the police of Boston, Brookline and Hyannis have seeming ly builded we'll what they claim is a web of no missing stitches about the youthful minister, the bride-to-have- the man who must henceforth de- pend upon a court to clear his name in a trial that will rival all others in the history of Massachusetts crim- inolOgy.a
 Rev c. V. T. Richeson is a man of peculiar personality. Even those fast friends he has made both among wom- in and out of the pulpit was fiery, impetuous, intense.s He stands tall and straight. slightly les than six feet. His eyes are flashing black with slight wrinkles at the corners which give them a piercing. steely look. A magnificent shock of raven black, wavy hair, the kind a woman might and clean cut face of excellent Ro- man features. His complexion is slightly pastey for one whose hair is so black. His mouth is strong, his lips firm with quirks in the corners. which give evidence of determination and perhaps a dominating quality To look at him at close range makes one feel that his face and features do not belle the character underneath.
 And Avis Linnell, Girl friends at the r. W. C.. A., and those of her childhood friends, who cried their goodbye when Avis went to the great city to become a great singer, say her pictures portray her well. Her hair, light and fine and very thick, the color of the lightest alley of gold, was worn always in a girlish fashion that accentuated the unusually dark eyes and eyebrows. The features, ex- cept her mouth, were as clear cut as heart Her mouth, the upper lips a typical Cupid's bow, was full-sensu- ous but not sensual. It was her eyes that made the difference.
 In manner she was always demure and of that clinging type, but not too extreme. Avis was slightly shorter in stature than Richeson In figure she
 
 years.
 Then Violet Edmands, who was to be Richeson's helpmeet instead of the former child sweetheart, Miss Ed mands is in her thirties. Most of her pictures flatter her. She is decidedly of Avis Linnell. Shorter in stature and stouter in figure, she looks her age. Her lips are thin, her face full, and her eyebrows coal black and fine> 1y penciled. Her hair, slightly wavy and heavy, was worn almost always parted and rolled at the sides. Her manner is that of woman of 40. That she knew of her fiance's former love affair-or at least a part of it-seems certain, say her friends, since Avis Linnell sometimes called on Richeson at his Cambridge quarters and was there once when Violet Edmands drove by in her brougham, stopping to call a greeting to Richeson.
 The police today gave out these de- 
 Avis Linnell, 19, presumably of ex- cellent reputation, a native of the lit- tie town of Hyannis, was murdered in her rooms at the Boston Y. w. c. A.
 An autopsy performed within sev- eral hours after the girl died showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that Avis Linnell had been betrayed by the man she loved and trusted, and that she took cyanide crystals this man gave her, understanding it to be a.- medi- cine. The fact that the girl had been slightly depressed for two or three with only occasional touches of her usual brightness, followed on Saturday night by an unusual rise in spirits, make the police believe she thought the crystals of death to be a which would relieve her condition
 The police know Avis Linnell and Rev. Rfcheson had been engaged. They had learned from girl friends that Richeson called on her frequent Iy and occasionally was with her alone for hours. They knew Avis LinnelI was not wealthy and as the weaving of the web following the death of Avis developed into semblance of fab ric theories of reason for murder were formed. Richeson had evidently tired of the fair-haired girl who had won his heart in the Cape Cod village The mother of Avis say Richeson's and her engagement had been brok- an off. Perhaps the lure of gold Miss Edmands is worth near half a | the minister to forget Avis Linnell, who could give him only supreme love.
 The police also have discovered that, l although Pastor Richeson told Avis ne could not make her his wife. he | lid not discontinue seeing her. even after she knew of his engagement to