The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-08

the last moment until later in the week
 The state will demand death. r. will insist that there is absolutely no pahIation of the offense charged and that only the electric chair is ade- quate penalty for the crime. In order to make this contention very plain, District Attorney PelIetier has let it be known that the druggist who sold
 the deadly poison to the minister only did so after the latter had insisted that he wanted it to lend the misery 1 of a female dog who is about to have
 puppies and whose whining shows 1 staten ent, the district attorney in s1sts, absolutely proved that Richeson had contemplated his fearful crime for many days and that he was a.bso- lutely callous in the matter.
 The fact that he was about to Tnur- der the mother of his unborn child ed was to get her out of the way, ae- cording toe the states attoruey Eo
 that he might be free to wed the
 heiress. of Brookline, Miss Violet Ed
 mands-
 Because of this, District Attorney 1 Pelletier felt very bitter against the prisoner, today, and was assemb1ing his evidence so that, if the court de- sired, he might prove the circurs- stances of the murder and show that it was most brutal and that there were no eXtenuating circumstances. Discussing this very point, fine dis trict attorney said. t6day-
 When a man engages himself to an innocent girl from a country vfI- lage, induces her to take the step which maidenhood takes with re- luctance unconquerabls save by love that man carries his duplicity to the point of betrothaI to another an then, deliberately, compounds a Dois- on and asks the girl he has betraysas to take 1t, extenHating circumstance are absent"
 While the prosecutor refused to discuss the case in detail Ele made it very plain to those who talked with him that there was no doubt of the reasons that Impelled the minister not alone to mutilate himself but to finally confess his terrible crime That reason was realization of the strong net of facts with which the state had been able to surround him. Wines after witness. whom he had suggest was examined ana diSrnisSe6-tfte5E stories being absolutely useless to save tila aecSlsed man from the death Snalc. t<s ssstsSrs -7szlr irff AaFd but even when the minister sugeestsG that Miss Edmands. his haneae, might be able to establish an altpi for hirn. they held out little hope and fnvesff~ gation showed that her story of the last visit paid to her before Riche- sons arrest, made the case worse in stead of better. Finally, the Iawyerz had to bitterly admit that tn ey diG not have a single witness whose story would upset the strong chair woven ltrayer of the cloth to the electric chair.
 Realization of this fact caused Richeson to change his mind. the au- thorities believe, today. They say that he knew that if he went to trial conviction was absolutely certain and there could be no excuse for maudlin sentiment interfering to save him from the consequences of hfs brufaE act But he knew. and his law -zrss knew, that Governor Foss is opposed to capital punishment They also all know that it has always been GUS toHnary for the state to recommend some degree of leniency where a criminal pleads guilty and saves the state the expense of a trial and also
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