New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
RC|HESON NOT SANE,
REPORT MAY ASSERT
Governor FosS Expects to Hear
from Dr.. |. Vernon Briggs
To-day.
PRISONER STAYS IN JAIL
Attorneys See Hope in This, as
Condemned Men Usually
Spend Ten Days in
Death House.
PRISONER STAYS IN JAIL
INV TeleSraph 10 The tribune. !

Boston. May 9-Dr. L. Vernon Briggs
will make his report tomorrow to Governor
ross on the mental condition Of Clarence V.
=. Richeson. Dr. Briggs report, IT was
learned on the best authority, will be that
Richeson is not a sane man
on this report Governor Foss will az once
make his decision. and it is expected that
+, will prepare to call a special meeting OF
the Council and present 10 IT Richeson's
.riea for commutation.
Richeson was allowed to remain in hi:
rel az the Charles street Jail when, under
his sentence. he would naturally have been
taken 10 the state prison in Charlestown
before dawn tomorrow. In the action of
Sheriff John Quinn in holding the prisoner
in ial the attorneys for Richeson see a
hcrefu. sign. The Sheriff had this to say
Under the Law, I am supposed TO remove
the prisoner any time within ten days be-
fore the date of the execution. The public
has generally believed that II was necessary
for a condemned man 20 spend q least ten
d7vs IN the death cell al Charlestown. Such
is not the case can take Richeson to tie
state prison any time IN to midnight on
tho very evening before his execution. and
the execution can take place within ten
minutes after his arrival have made 70
preparations for his transfer and cannot
50, when he will be removed. II is left en-
,i~elv 10 my discretion"
Richeson's attorneys believe that Gov
error Foss refraincd from sending Richie
sons plea 10 the Council al its regular meet
ins not because he had decided 10 allow the
sentence Of the court TO he carried out, hut
because he had received a hint Of Or.
Rrggs's opinion.
Three aienists have now examined
r., leson DR.. Lane made the first eXami-
nation. acting for the attorneys for the
defence. Or Briggs the second. and the
third was made by DR.. Cilly. Whr,e await
ing the final reports Of these men. which
will largely govern his decision. Governor
Foss. attorneys for the defence believe. re-
quested Sheriff Quinn unoficially 70 keep
Picheson in the Charles street Jail for the
present
DR.. BriccS'S examination Of the prisoner
Was made after an expert portrait photog-
raphor had made several pictures of
Richeson IN the Charles street jail The
pictures were made at the personal request
Of the Governor, and the examinations by
Dr. Briggs we're also made al the hehest
o. Governor Foss.
Permission for Mrs Louise T. Britain.
celestial wife Of Or. BENJAMIN K. Rich. Of
New York. to address a meeting of the
Evangelical Alliance, in the social hall al
fremont Temple the largest baptist
church in New England, on the subject Of
the alleged Normonism Of Clarence V. 7.
Ficheson and his celestial marriage 70
Miss Avis Lnnell. was refused this after
noon by the superintendent Of the building.
The meeting thereupon adjourned 10 PiI-
grim Hall in the Congregational building.
There the names Of two Boston women
we're giver who were claimed 10 have seen
Ri-heson at Mormon meeting