The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-21
R|CHESON PAYS
EXTREME PENALTY
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INaUIHlL ] lHHIIE
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knowledge of Its having been soni
the attorney declared He added tha,
ne had every reason 10 Lun,>r
condemned man had no expectation OF
any such means of DEATH
History of His Crime.
The course of justice, while undoubt
edly accelerated by Richeson's ccnfes-
SION which followed close upon his
attempt at suicide in the Charles
street jail, was unusually swift Avi;
Linnell died in the Young Women's
Christian Association home In Boston
on Saturday night, October IS last.
While q permit for the burial of her
body was being issued the following
morning, RCheson Was preaching from
the pulpit of his Baptist church IN Cam
bridge The following SUNDAY. at tn.
customary hour for divine worship,
R!cheson sat. an accused murderer, in
the Charles Street Jail
1t is also coincidence worthy nj,
mention that two weeks late-. on tn.
exact date which had been sea for his
wedding 20 the Brooklinc heiresS Rich
eson, with head erect and defiant eyes
pleaded not guilty when araisncd on
the formal charge of murder. MI told
but a day or two more than seven
death and the death of the man who
cncompassed her end
Each development of this tragedy
followed 50 closely upon the other as
TO he almost hcwildcring. Avis Lin
ncll's death cam. so late upon the fate
,ful Saturday night that 1t did not find
ITS way into the columns OF the Boston
newspapers until Monday morning.
Then appeared in all OF them "a short
news paragraph. under the caption.
Girl is Il suicide at Y. W. {. A. Home"
The article contained merely a series
OF commonplace sentences with not one
word 10 indicate the dramatic events
yet fated 10 be unfolded, /, set forth
merely that Avis Linnell nineteen
years oin. Formerly choir singer In
the Baptist Church at IIyannis. and
now student of vocal music in the
New England Conservatory, had died
from the effects OF cyanide of potas-
SUM under circumstances which d.
noted almost beyond argument that IL
was a case of suicide.
The girl had been found in the bath
room on the dormltory hoor of the
Young Women's Christian Association
home. where she lived. Attention had
ibeen called to her condition by fellow
dodgers. vino heard her subducd means
coming from the bathroom. They found
her seated upon chair with her feet
'n the pu'i'tup. NO bottle or papers
,N IA" contained poison. in either
Aquid or powder form, We're 10 be
'ouitu' me only articles observed in
,"s Va Ihrooih were three pieces of fresh
i'"'i'ei :" "nuerciothlhs- rms under-
/" 'ruiH remarkaoie way
started the process of retribution. I'll
came about in this way
,,;s - -, er 'nuruerer'
siy,.,, - ~, ~, ,iote nun
,bo os, ,t,, i'o ,s ioI
,he marria-a or ,.. .,s, g., i1'.:
where Richeson vas rho no.,o,. - ne
village Hnn,is, ch,,rcb hnfara
called ia tho more nretsn,iars I,,i'
in Cambridge
Richeson's attentions tn Av;s b.r,,
from that time much In IN. rnrccaIad
distaste of the young man vino mad
become her brother-in-law. III. has
since the tragedy admitted that his dis
like for the pastor was instructive
from the first, bu; that he was Obliged
10 conceal ii and that he refrained
from expressing his opposition to the
niue girl receiving visits from the pas
Tor because he had heard nothing spe-
tillt upon winch TO base his affection