The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-21

Miss Edmands was a different typs from the little country village maid who had done so much for the preacher down on Cape Cod. Proud ands tmperiOuS in manner she was at. tracted toward the young minister tention to her. In a short time he was her Slave and soon she told her intimates that. she and the minister were to wed soon.
 Whether Avis Linnell knew of the other woman at this time is not known. It is certain however tha, early in the summer she took the 6ia- mond ring from her finger and wore it no more. But there was no an
 nouncement to the home people thai the engagement had been broken ana there were only few people who knew that another woman had come between the preacher and his little country sweetheart.
 Miss LinneH went home in August and shortly afterWard Richeson also came to Hyannis to spend his yaca ton. Prior to that time the minis ter had been noticed dining in Bos- ton restaurants with Miss Linnel] and in Hyannis, and in the old town the couple were much together and the rumor was soon afloat that they had patched up their differences and would eventually be married.
 In September Richeson returned to his pulpit and Miss Linne1l went back to her music studies. At times. her friends say, she seemed much lis- traught and troubled. Finally or, Saturday, October IA, the young mu- sic student told her girl friends at the Young Women's Christian asso- citation, where she boarded. that she gentleman friend'' Although she did not call Richeson by name She was understood to mean him by her friends.
 No one saw the couple at their meal. The last time they are known gether was the day before Miss Lin nells mother. who had been visiting in Boston, returned home. Her daurh- ter accompanied her to the railway station and after her train left, ac. cording to the story of George Baker, joined Miss Linnell. They left the depot together.
 Following her visit to her gentle man friend for dinner Miss Linnell returned to thea Y. w. c. A., in high spirit. She told her friends that she that she was sure now that her .'headaches" would be cured.
 That night young women occupying adjoining rooms heard groans in the bathroom adjoining Miss Linnelfs bedroom. They broke down the door put the girl became unconscious and died before a physician arrived. For short time it was believed that she had killed herself. It was suggested that Richeson had told her that he was to wed the "other woman and that this fact had caused her to end her life: An autopsy, however, re- vealed that she was about to become a mother and that cyanide of potas- sium had been the cause of death.
 The fact that the girl was in a deli cate condition aroused suspician and the police began to shadow Richeson. It developed that. when the little country girl was found dying her who demanded to know whether she had said anything about him. When told she had not it is alleged that he demanded why he had been called and notified the girl to tell Miss Lin- nelrs people and the police.
 Richeson immediately deserted his lodging and went to the Brookline mansion of Moses Grant Edmands where he stayed in strict seclusion The next day he went down town and engaged an attorney to represent his interests.
 On October 19. William Hahn, drug gist, in Newton Centre, where Riche- son attended theological school. told the police that he had sold Richeson cynadie of potassium.
 He told me that he had a pet doe that he wanted to kill" Hahn told the police. "and I told him that he ought to use ether He said that he gested cyanide. I gave him pack age but he insisted on more. As he was leaving he cautioned me to say nothing about the matter"