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REV. RICHESON PAYS THE DEATH PENATLV < * FORMER PASTOR GIVES IT LIFE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR Calm Pnriuer Last Nigrlit?Eats Little jbui amuses tjsrar aua Hymns. Boston. May 21.?Clarence Virgil Thompson Richeson, native of Virginia, pastor of the Immanuel Baptisi church at Cambridge, was electrocuted %t 12:10 o'clock this morning in the i death house of the State prison at C'harlestown. The cHme for which , Richeson paid the- penalty this morning was the murder of his sweetheart, 19-year-old Avis Linnell. Richeson confessed to giving her poison, which caused her death October 14, 1911. The current was turned on at 12:10:02 and the prisoner was declared dead at 12:17. * The former clergyman was outwardly calm when he entered the h death chamber -and he maintained his composure while the straps and electrades were being adjusted as he sat in the electric chair. Brother Was Cold. When Richeson yesterday afternoon reflected that he probably had less than 12 hours to live he expressed a desire to see his brother, DoMglas Richeson, of Chicago, who is in the fcr ucky. Douglas Richeson decided yesB terday afternoon that he would not go " to his brother. . ? w ? The condemned man slept soundly for four hours yesterday morning, aff ter being awake nearly all night. He was calm and even cheerful at times during the night, occasionally singing a hymn or repeating his favorite scriptural passages. Richeson spent much of his time i y-i nro var unrl in vonHino' J U.C4 J ill y* l*J Vi uuu - Vi^v?*^0 & his Bible. Ik The list of those appointed to atH&tend the execution of Richeson given H out by the warden this evening inB eluded, besides the three physicians V who were official witnesses, the Rev. ^ Hertfert S. Johnson, the prisoner's spiritual adviser; E. C. Kelly, deputy sheriff of Suffold county, and one representative for each of three press as? sociations. The three medical witnesses were: Dr. George B. McGrath, Dr. Joseph I. McLaughlin, the prison physician, and Dr. J. P. Butler, repre senting the surgeon general of the . State. Rev. Herbert W. Stephens, the prison chaplain; the warden, General Bridges and assistants made up the rest of those granted permission to ^enter the death chamber. Seemed Calm. Richeson had no supper, saying that I he desired none. After eating a lit-, tie fruit, he lighted a cigar and he was sitting on the edge of his cot, apparently enjoying his smoke, when | Deputy Warden Allen entered his cell j ^ witli the black suit of clothes to be worn during the execution. Richeson * nodded calmly to the deputy, but said -^nothing. %' Sunday and during the afternoon yesterday the prisoner lay on his cotj but yesterday afternoon and last night he sat up most of the time. Attorney Morse, rwho visited Richeson during the afternoon, found his client calm and anxious to have the sentence of the law carried out during the night. Mr. Morse in an interview later, said: "Richeson has made up his mind to die and he does not want; any delay. This has been a long story and the last chapter is being written today. "Richeson is going to die without I holding a grudge against any one. He had scarcely uttered a harsh word and to me personally and to those who come in contact with him, he has ^ ^again and again expressed his gratiW Elcheson's Crime. The crime for which Richeson, at ^ the time of his arrest pastor of the Tmmanip] ohurch of Cambridge, was sentenced to die in the electric chair, was the confessed murder of his former sweetheart, 19-year-old Avis Linnell, of Hyannis, a pupil in the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. The girl stood in the way of the! ^minister's marriage to Miss Violet Ed- j ? mands, a society girl and heiress of j Brookline, both through an engage- j ment which still existed between the i two and because of a condition in which Miss Linnell found herself. The girl was deceived into taking a poison given her by Richeson, which she believed would remedy that condition | and died in her rooms at the Young Woman's Christian association on the ^evening of October 14, 1911. On that ? day invi-tations had been issued for I the wedding ceremony which was to ' unite Richeson and Miss Edmands. As pastor of a small church in the Capo Coil tow a of Hyannis two years bei'oiv. Tht- handsome and eloquent minister, then 33 years old, had been attracted to Avis Linnell, who was an exceptionally pretty girl of 17 years. She lived with her parents, her father, Edgar Linnell, being a contractor and K.<;Mat* Ir Wflc lipr a m hi f inn to hp come a teacher and she was attending the State normal school at Hyannis. Miss Linnell joined Richeson's church, was baptized by him and became a member of the church choir. In a short time, early in 1909, Miss Linnell was displaying a diamond ring and confided in her girl friends that she was to be married to the minister the following October. -Abandoning her plan of becoming a school teach i er, Miss Linnell began preparations i | for her wedding. Some of her trous- i seau was completed and the two paid a visit to Rev. Edward S. Botton, of j Brewster, who was asked to officiate ! at the ceremony. Friction developed between Richeson and his deacons in June, 1910, j over the young minister's impetuous i : manner and his violent language. There was. also a Question as to the ! loss of $50 in money which had been left by a parishioner in the pastor's study. The minister declared he had been robbed of the money. Shortly ; afterward it was learned he had sent: : a similar sum by money order from : a nearby town to a woman in Salt j Lake City, Utah. His resignation followed and he accepted a call to the Immanuel Baptist church of Cambridge. When Richeson went to Cambridge j Miss Linnell went to the Conservatory : of Mil sir. in Boston. - Aimed Higher. The successes which the young i preacher attained in his larger sphere | of usefulness made a marked impresI sion upon him. Surrounded' by influential friends and associates his ambitions widened. He began to pay court to Miss Violet Edmands, of Brookline, the daughter of Moses Grant Edmands, a prominent Baptist i layman and trustee of the Xewton I : Theological seminary, from which1 Richeson had been graduated. Miss j Edmands was prominent socially and I was wealthy in her own right, as well | J as entitled to share in the estate of i some $880,000 left by her grandfather, j Entrance to the exclusive home of the I Edmands had been easy to minister i as the pastor of the church the family [ 'attended, and in a sort time he was ! accepted as suitor for the daughter's hand. At the same time Richesori was meeting Miss Linnell as formerly. ine invitations to tne wedding pi" Richescn and Miss Edmands were sent out the afternoon of Saturday, October 14. That same afternoon Richesou dined with Avis Linnell at a little restaurant in the Back Bay. While there the girl appeared depressed. At times tears rolled down her cheeks. When she returned to her lodging place, however, she seemed cheerful, although quickly excusing hers.ef and hurrying away to her room. G:roans were heard coming from a ' bathroom of the association quarters ishortly after 7 o'clock that evening. The door was broken in and Miss Linnell was found partially unconscious and apparently in great agony. Half an hour later she died without recovering consciousness." A belief that the girl had committed suicide was at first general, but her family were disposed to discredit the report, and a thorough investigation was made. As a resut the police felt warranted ; in taking action. The evening of October 19 Chief Inspector Dugan and members of his! force went to the home of Mr. Ed-: mands on Devon street in Brookline, to arrest Richeson on the suspicion j that he was guilty of murder. Admission to the house was denied although j the hour was early. The police remained on guard through the night. Pastor Arrested. I The weary vigil was kept up until dayilght when a maid who appeared in the kitchen was prevailed upon to i notify Mr. Edmands that the officers were outside and would break in if the door was not opened at once. At 7 o'clock the police were admitted. ! Richeson was found in bed. He was ordered to dress *and accompany the j officers. Before leaving the house he I took in his arms Miss Violet Edmands, j who was weeping hysterically. "Do not worn*," he said; "everything will , come out all right." The minister j came out of the house in the murky; dawn, passing between two rows of police, newspaper men and curious neighbors and was taken to police headquarters in Boston in a taxicab to be arraigned. The case was set for October 31 for a hearing and Richeson was committed to the Charles street jail without bail. Within a few days the wedding invitations of the minister and Miss Edmands, summoning the guests to the Edmands home 011 October 31, were recalled. Before the day of the hearing arriv- I ed a special session of the grand jury was called an indictment charging murder in five counts was found. Richeson was taken into court to j plead to the charge of murder on the riav 1ia wac to have been married to " - ---- I -Miss Edmands. The trial of the case was set for January 15. At the same time the police began an investigation into the life of Richeson. Every important act of his life from the date of his birth at Rose j Hill, Va., 35 years ago, until his advent in Cambridge was gone into. Richeson's life had not been an un- | disturbed one, it was learned, and j many tales were related of his en- { laiigitJiiitrn is vviLJLl uiig w ujluciu Richeson entered Newton Theological seminary in the fall of 1906 and graduatd in 3909. During his course he earned money by working in restaurants and shoe stores. He was j called to the Hyannis church in 1909 and remained there until June, 1910, when he resigned to accept the pastorate of the Immanuel Baptist church in Cambridge. Lost Sympathy. Interest in the case was intensified on December 20, when it became known that Richeson had mutilated himself in his cell at the Charles street jail. The public apparently lost all sympathy for the prisoner following his strange act, which was interpreted as a confession of guilt. At Hyannis, the home of Avis Linnell, the minister was hung in effigy, with a placard on the dummy reading, "Guilty, j Read Luke 17:2." In Boston a con- j ference of Baptist ministers was call-; ed and Richeson was formally deprived of his title of reverend. Richeson confessed his guilt in a statement written hv himself nn Tart nary 3 and given out by his counsel on 1 January 6. The confession was addressed to his counsel and read: "Deeply penitent before my sins, j and earnestly desiring as far as in my power lies to make atonement, I hereby confess that I am guilty of the offense of which I stand indicted. I am ?noved to this course by no inducement of self benefit of lenitency. Heinous as is my crime, God has not wholly abandoned me, and my conscience and manhood, however depraved and blighted, will not admit of my still further wronging by a public trial her whose pure young life I have destroyed. "Under the lashings of remorse I have Cllffororl ar>rl -r> rv? onffarin cr + >ia frvy_ I ^ VA UUU TiUi. k>UilVi iUd CU.^ IUI ; tures of the damned. In this I.find a measure of comfort. In my mental anguish I recognize there is still, by the mercy of the Master, some remnant of the divine spark of goodness still lingering with me. I s^uld wish j to live only because within some pris- : on's walls'I might, in some small! measure, redeem my sinful past, help some despairing soul, and at last find j favor with my God. "You are instructed to deliver this | to the district attorney or to the judge j of the court. Sincerely yours, Clar- i ence V. T. Richeson." Richeson was taken into court on J .... i January 9, pleaded guilty of tbe mur- i der of Avis Linnell and was sentenced ! to be electrocuted at the Charlestown [ State prison in the week beginning | May 19. ! ^MMARIA | m headache, biliousness, in- ^ digestion, rheumatism, I B pimples, blotches, yellow complexion, etc., are all m || signs of poisons in your H; B THPCA nnicnrifs Af IUIWUt A AAVWW jyw*JHf should be driven out, or 9 ! serious illness may result m I To get rid of them, use Bedford's I B!ack-Orayght|! the old, reliable, purely fl; vegetable, liver medicine, Jg Mrs. J. H. Easier, of v. Spartanburg,'S. C., says: U " I had sick headache, for V ft years. I felt bad most of B the time, , I tried Thed- ! If ford's Black-Draught, and H! M now I feel better than lj when I was 16 years old." I ? Your druggist sells it, in V S 25 cent packages. li ? Insist on Thedford's Jj I Il Thp 10r Great Re I During Tr We will open a branch June 1st in the store fori lers ?? 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