The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-21

Avis Lihnefl. belle of the little viii lage of Hyannis, down aon Cape Cod, had hoped by his open confession to avoid the death in the cruel chair.
 a1s iawyers had told him that he could probably earn a communication w sne deatn sentence by clearing up a murder mystery which, no matfer now conclusive the evidence. woul6 always have left suspicion in the minds of those opposed to circumstan- taai evidence in capital cases. And fine man who had disgraced his holy call ed guilty in the hope that after ail ne might save his life even though doomed to spend the remainder of ii in prison. s7 V
 But the closing words of the bla Il. roped, stern faced judge brought fha reaHxation of how slender his hope was ana Richeson had to be carried uo out 1L tne courthouse to the prison van that returned him to the Charles street jail where most of the tin1e since his sentence has been spenf, Jail officials admitted today tr,at ha was greatly depressed from the mos ment he was brought from hearine ms rate pronounced. He realized that the closing words of the cnI,rt although a formula dating from ra .; centuries, meant that his onIv hone was Tn the God whose calling he had betrayed and even since his waking and sleeping hours have been haunted Dy. the spectre of the broad arm chair with It's bright metal base ana cr,,ai network of wires. >-0-
 Beginning in the little Cane Cad village of Hyannis. the love trage1u which culminated in the murder ana touays execution was the world old
 rlangie-tWo women and man Back in 1909, Richeson,-l graduated only rev months before. from the NeWton Theological Seminary was called to the passionate, of the ,Hvan- ms Baptist church. Handsome. poiisl
 ca In manner, with a wonderf,,1 amount of personal magnetism, he wes soon a social favorite. Yo,,nc, lno olo were attracted to him and tne church congregation was do,,bled Tn the first few months of his incnm- Dency. Little comment was occasion- ed py the fact that he was seen fire. quently In the company of seventeen year old Avis LinneH, the brightest. oI tne local high. school students. she nad been baptized and received into the church by the young minister and the gossips of the little village col.- stoered them naturally attracted to each other and looked for them to
 There was no formal announcement of an engagement. But Miss .LinnelI nao 9lven up most of her social di- versions and was spending nearly all of her time in church work. She was the right hand" of the pastor in most of the events and took his parr Tn dispute that arose from his methods of preaching. It was Riche. sons boast that he always called "a spaoe spade, and his forceful preaching in which he assafled sin in every guise. soon split the congrega- tion m factions. In April 1910. Rev. Richeson resigned and stated that he nao accepted a charge in Emmanuel. Cambridge. He had planned to stay there only short time and later to mary Miss Linnell. according to what their friends understood. and go to China as missionary.
 Then Avis Linnell, who had a splendid voice, left the little country village and went to Boston. She stated that she was going there to study in the Conservatory of Music so that she might be better able to At that time she was wearing a handsome diamond ring which it was understood by her people had been the gift of the minister.
 Meanwhile Richeson had been in- stalled in the fashionable Cambridee church. Here his work was crowned with success and he became a favor. ite with many members of the con- gregation who professed to be charm. ed with his plain talks from the pulpit. One night at church re- ception the young pastor was intro. duced to Miss Viola Rdmands. She was the daughter of Moses Grant Ed of Brookiine, and reputed to be in possession in her own right of half million dollars received from the| eoSate or her grandfather.