New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-21
RICHES0N WAS ROMANTIC
Was Attentive to Avis Linnell Be
fore He Met Weather Girl.

Boston oct. 2l.-The Rev Clarence Viz
gil Thompson Richeson is thirty-fve years
OF age and Il a native Of Rosehlll Va. lie
was at one time student In William
Jewell College. Liberty. Mo. Later he was
graduated from the Newton Theological
Institution. Baptist seminary at Newton,
Mass lie was ordained TO the ministry in
the Third Baptist Church Of st. Louis. His
pastorate at Hyannis was his first regular
charge.
Mir Richeson, according 10 those who
know him, is OF a nervous temperament
and has been troubled with i'll health
throughout his ministerial career
While Richeson was a student at William
Jewell College he was aided financially to
the extent of SEQ by Miss Patsey Felts one
of the teachers there This woman is now
suffering from tuberculosis at the home Of
her sister in Utah. All Of the principal has
been returned by him.
His romance with Miss Linnell began
back in 1908, when Richeson. then a stu
dent in the Newton Theological Institution,
went to Hyannis as a candidate for the
pulpit Of the Baptist Church there. He is
a striking looking man, tall, has regular
features, with plenty OF raven black hair,
and since his student days has attained
considerable reputation as a pulpit orator.
1t was not long after he went 10 Hyannis
that he met Avis Linnell, and the two from
that time were seen frequently together
Early en- 1909 Mr.. Richeson was graduated
and became the pastor OF the Hyannis Bap-
fist Church About the middle of that year
IL was general gossip that the young pastor
and the pretty Avis Linnell were engaged
and the girl began to wear diamond ring
about which her friends twitted her good
naturedly.
In December 1899. gossip went around
that the engagement had been broken. The
girl said nothing ana her friends did not
question her. though II was commonly be-
lievod that she had been fitted.
II was about this time that Mr.. Rlcheson
became attentive to Miss Violet Edmands.
the daughter Of a Brookine real estate
operator and heiress in her own right.
Thcy had riet when re was g. divinity stu
dent The introduction was made by her
father. who IS a trustee Of the Newton
Theological School. and who took deep
interest IN the students there. Then came
n ripple in the smoo;hness of the Hyennis
pastorate. eliminating carly this year in
the pulpit Of the Emmanuel church, In
Cambridge. Here tho opportunities We're
grcater for meeting Miss Edmands. and
some time ago their engagement was AN
nounced. An elaborate wedding had been
planned for October 81, which g. the date
now set for the formal arraignment OF
Richeson o. the charge OF killing Avis
Linntn
Liberty. Mo- oct 2C.--The Rev =. T. VI
Richeson was for several years It student
at william Jewell College here and was
expelled IN 1905 In his senior year, when
he wap detected cheating in his eNamina-
lions
While i'm college ne Sgured IN one sensa-
tional incident. when he refused to leave
the home Of young woman. VINO II said
10 have Tilted him. until O'Clock IN the
morning. At that tim he apparently had
q Al. and it was only through the efforts
Of fellow students. who were called by the
family. that he wss induced 10 leave. The
matter was quietly hushed up to prevent
notorlety.