The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-15
.RICHEsON'S
 CASE NOT
 CONSIDERED
Governor Foss Sits With His Council Without Re-
 ferring to Case

ferring to Case
 Boston, May 15-After a short ses- sion the Executive Council, which met at 12:3O in it's offices at the State House. adjourned without Gov. Toss having referred to the body any pe- tition for 1eniency for Rev. c. V. T. Richeson.
 The council recessed for about Is minutes and reconvened at o'clock It will meet again tomorrow. The session tomorrow and that which con- vened at o'clock this afternoon were for the express purpose. of opening the returns from the recent primar- ies. ;
 Gov. Foss had concluded the read ing the reports made by the sanity tive Council. He had gone over them thoroughly and ample Opportunity. ac- cording to two members of the coun- cil, to submit a leniency petition dur ing many moments of slack business when official work dragged and the Richeson case in undertones among themselves, but loud enough for the governor to hear. Through it all, Gov. Floss made no sign and this was in- terpreted by two of the councillors as meaning Gov. Foss has been in- formed Richeson was and Is sane and that no leniency petition will be pre- sented by him.
 Boston, May 1S-"Clarence V. T.. Richeson will go to his death a deep- Iy penitent and sincerely reformed man, in my opinion [
 These were the words of Rev Her- h>-< r v,.i1nHs v,% s.,f11i1ss fra pastor of Warren Avenue Baptist church. who was chdeen by the cons demned man to be his spiritual advis- CT and comforter during his last houre of waiting for death in the cell of death at charlestown prison.
 this morning. He said he found the doomed, man reading the bible which he road so assiduously during his first days at Charles street Jail and then discarded for magazines and papers and cigarettes immediately after his Esswhen I arrived at Richeson's cell" said pr. Johnson, Fl found RichesoA sitting in his chair r1Ading the New Testament. He was n calm as you or |. His nerve wae not tho bravado, non-chalant Kind. but that of the man who is slowly raaliSinx his earthly case we ,didnst ,.dS any praying nor did I do; any pr@acAthg. We had spiIi Sa8i's sss kim 'ssajn I tonaosFoW. nor Tfnny expect him to sugge1t the usual pray- CTS for himseif. Hichsson, in my opinion, will 70 to his death a deeply penitent and sincerely reformed man. "s
 Boston, May 15.-Rev. Clarence. V. T. Richeson slept soundly last night, his first night in death cell No. at Charlestowns prison, where he will expiate his murder of Avis LinneH in the electric chair sometime after mid night May 1S. He arose. at 7:S0 this morning, apparently with his nerves and whole condition in better shape than when he was taken to the cell from which he will walk out to his and at 8 o'clock asked for toast, steak and coffee. for breakfast He ate heartily and spent the forenoon reading magazines and papers from which had been clipped all stories referring. to his case.
 Richeson, according to report made to Warden Bridges of ChariestoVn prison by the official who served his breakfast, apparently knows his doom is sealed, but down in his heart of hearts upto noon today was a single. shredded hope. Even before his breakfast was served he asked the sfl- ent watcher who had stood grimly at the door of his cell all night, at what hour the governors council meets to- day. A negative shake of the head and the placing of sentinels finger on his lips was his only answer. for no
 man will speak to the murderer again excepting his attorney. William A. Morse; Warden Bridges, Rev. Herbert w. Stebbins. prison chaplain. and Rev. Herbert s. Johnson, Boston's million aire militant Baptist preacher, whom the doomed man has asked to be his spiritual adviser in his last dark hours before death.
 Chariestown prison today was in- vaded by a veritable army of news- paper men. There were I'll report CTS from Boston and other cities. Some of them came from as far away as St. Louis. There were two from Chicago. All will keep the "death watch" in two rooms which Warden Bridges always keeps open as his .'newspaper mems club rooms" near his office in the residence section of the grim prison. No special cores pondentS or newspapermen from local papers will be present when the switch is turned on to send Richeson to his final hearing.
 Not even RichesOn's father or his sister can speak to him now, except by special executive order from Gov. Foss. 1t does not seem likely that either will make application to talk with the son and brother. No word has been heard from the family in Virginia for months A sister, Miss l.. V. Richeson, visited Richeson re- gently at Charles Street jail. She Is said to have returned to her home in the west.
 Richeson is alone except for those who have been named as having au- thority to see and talk to him.
 No word has come to him for days from the Edmands family, whose great residence in Brookline was closed today. 1t is thought the Ed mands have left Boston and Brook line far behind until it is all over, talk ing with them Violet Edmands, to whom Richeson was to have been on the day that he was ar-, raigned on the charge of the murder l which he has since confessed
 Richeson's request to know the time at which the governors council will meet today showed that the man still | hopes against the fate that awaits him. But that it was a scant hope was learned positively today when an l authority at the state house declared the governor would l present no petition for leniency to his l no hand will be turned l to stop the grinding of the laws l wheels which will within ten days snuff out the life of New England's most famous murderer. Even should | this petition be presented 1t ia known