The Washington times., 1913-09-15
CRIME IS PARALLEL
. OF L|NNEL[ MURDER
The Rev. Richeson. Like
Schmidt. In Love With Girl.
Another Similarity.

AEN icRk. Sept.,,15 Tie closest
parallel in recent years of the crime
charged against the Rev Hans
Schmidt WIS that committed on octo-
her 10. 1911, by the Rev. Clarence Y.
+ Richeson. Il Baptist clergyman. OF
Cambridge. Mass. when ,be gaze tu
Avis I-innell, girl nineteen years
Ole. who had loved and trusted him.
the poison with whicl: she urwitt-
lnSly ended her life: foir lays after
As in the allegation again Father
schmidt. the Ca,nhSiiige rlecSyma n
continued t" perform his clerical
functions after he had committed the
rhine and until the police placed him
under arrest in tn" liume of tbs Young
woman he hoped to marry after hav-
ing disposed OF his dupc..
Rfcheson. whose career before going
TO the Boston suburb had been an eN-
tiaorulnary one. was at the time of the
crime which shocked the ,country, the
pastor of the Immanuel Baptist Church
IN Cambridge. He Won the love of Miss
Linnell whom he had met while a pas
TOR In the small Cape Cod village of
Hsannis. Miss Linnell also went to
BOSTON Tor the purpose of studying
,nusic, it being her belief that the
cierSFman would marry her.
Found Dead In Bathroom.
On October u. 1911 Miss L.innelrs budy'
was found IL the bathroom OF the
Young Women's Christian Association,
IN Warrenton street. Boston, and beside
her lay a bottle of poison later identi-
fed as cyanide of potassium. It was at
hrst thought she had committed suicide.
she being at that time about to become
a mother. -. =. : -
suspicion was very soon directed. how
ever. to Richeson. and when II was dis
covered that he had bought a bottle of
cyanide OF potassium on October 10 from
Imam IL. Hahn, druggist Of Newton
center, he was arrested in the home of
Miss Violet Edmands, OF Brookline,
worth $TS,6o I'm her own right whom
Richeson expected to marry Oh October
81. 1t developed that the Clergyman gave
the poison to Miss Linnell In a Boylston
street restaurant, and that he had told
her 1t was some medicine which would
help her 'out OF her trouble
On January 4 Richeson. after having
made an attempt to mutilate himself in
prisoh. confessed his crime, and he
begged that he be allowed to make
atonement by spending the rest OF his
life in Jail.
Despite his plea he was put to death
IN Chariestown prison on May L, 1872.
He went to his death singing hymns.
Recalls Guldensuppe Case.
In many of the features the murder OF
tine girl whose body was thrown into the
Hudson river recalls the murder of Will
liam Guldensuppe, which stirred the
whole country in 1897 As in the present
case. the victims body was dismem-
bered and was found in many. pieces
floating far apart in the East river
Guldensuppe was A bath rubber. He
lived with Mrs. Augusta Mack, d mid
wife, over the store which the woman
hail purchased at 439 Ninth avenue.
Manhattan. GuldensuIpe HAD a rival for
Mrs. Nack's affections in Martin Thorn.
large powerful. and unscrupuious
man, who consplred with Mrs. Mack to
put him out OF the way. BY the use of
Mrs. Nack's name Guldensuppe was
.lureo TO a lonely and deserted cottage
AT Noodside, l.. J.. where Thorn was
the victim TO the house and left him
alone with Thorn, who killed him with
a knife, cut the body into several pieces
ar d threw II into the East river
GuldenSuppe's disappearance was re-
ported to the police. and while they
were searching for him. a part. Of the
BODY was found off Long Island City
Several days later other parts of tbs
body were discovered on the Long isl
and shore, snd Identification was DOS
sible. Thorn and Mrs. Mack were ar
ested. tried and convicted. Thorn was
sentenced to death. and died In the cleo
tric chair at Sing Sing on August J..
1898. Mrs. Mack was sentenced to fif-
serving her sentence in January. 1858.