The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1911, Page 2

yar ain etn ck Be , “heard outside, ventured near enough to close the open window. ELISA PERG eta ear sium a secrét. 1 @0l6 no one until t t told Mr. Bishop of the occurrence.” Mr. Haim, the druggist, was et Police Meadquarters with @rmer State Representative Bishop as counsel in courwe of the forenoon Moses UG. Edmonds, ai witose home tie arrest was nade ‘appeared The news of the arrest spread quickly through the city, and soon afte the clergyman had been taken to Police Headquarters Pemberton Square was filled with so great a crowd that @ strong detail of police was called out to keep clear the entrance to Headquarters and from che entrance to the Buffolk County Court House opposite. Meanwhile Mr. Richeson was closeted in Chief Dugan's office with the Chief and Police Inspector Lynch. Occasionally Deputy Superintend Lane case devon renertey| Girl Who Robbed Her Parents And Man She Eloped With ent Waits entered the room. It was understood that the pastor main. tamed an unbroken silence and refused to discuss the case with the officers. ARREST FOLLOWED ALI, NIGHT SIGGI The poisoning of the Hyannis girl followed immedistely upon the announcement of the clergyman's engagement to wed Miss Edmonds whose family is both wealthy and prominent. The Linne‘Js are sin village folk of Hyannis, where the Rev. Richeson occupied the pulpit Defore being called to the more fashionable church §n Cambridge. Tho murdered girl sang in the choir of Richeson’s Hyannis church aod their Marriage was regarded as certain until] the gossips learned t Brookline girl had come into the young pastor's !ife and was ocr much of his attention. The arrest of the clergyman in the home of his flancee possessed many strikingly dramatic features and followed an all night slege of the Brook line house by police amd reporters. ‘she alleged pojsoner had practically barricaded himself in the Edmonds home since Sunday night. He slipped out yesterday afternoon and reached Boston by a devious route, where he sought the counsel of Jam R. Dunbar, a prominent attorney. Mrs Edmonds accompanied him on this journey and then brought him back to her bome, where the barriers were again raised agains! both police and newspaper men. DRUGGIST CLINCHES THE CASE. The police had delved {nto the romantic attach: that existed be tween Richeson and Miss Linnell before he met Miss Edmoads, They were certain that the Hyannis girl had not taken the cyanide for the purpose of | suleide. The only unsecured link was fettered when the Newton Centre druggist informed Chict Inspector Dugan that he had sold ti lergyman _ & packet of the deadly drug. The police then’ threw out thelr net around | the Brookline villa. “We have found out who purchased the cyanide of potassium,” sald Inspector Dugan, “and we sre going into that house to ask the Rev. Riche: son if he’ purchased st. 'f he denies it he will come out as my prisoner, charged with murder.” gown, She had finished the dress a few days before she took the fatal The chief of police and Deputy Superintendent Watt, with several Bos-| drug, and when she was still in absolute ignorance of the betrothal of ton officers, left the city shertly after midnight and at 1 o'clock presented | Richeson and Miss Edmonds. themselves before the Edmonds home in Brookline. A squad of Brookline | police, summoned by telopbone, was already on the ground and the house PLAYED DOUBLE ROLE FOR MONTHS. completely surrounded, That the young clergyman had been playing a double game with the All night the officers waited outside the house, as the occupants re two girls for months was stated by Mrs. Mary Gibbons, landlady of Riche- fused to answer elther the bell or knocker on the door. Without a war-|#00's former boarding place on Bigelow street, Cambridge. Mrs. Gibbons | learned that her boarder had a schedule for dividing up the week between rant the officers could not enter by force. his totam Wedneed A hated ed ‘4 hel ‘0 flancees. ednesdays an turdays he devoted to the little singer, POLICE THREATENED TO BREAK IN. while the remainder of the week was given up to his courting of the wealthy As the gray dawn broke in the east and the outlines of the house,| Mlss Edmonds. with its windows and doors and many gables, began to appear with dis- The Brookline girl would drive to the Bigelow street boarding house tinctness, there were slight evidences of Ife inside. Voices were heard| 0M her days and take Richeson out in her carriage. Avis Linnell either speaking in low tones, then suddenly a curtain at an opened window was) ‘alled on ber days or met Richeson in Boston. Saturday was her day to drawn by a woman's hand. Soon another curtain was lowered, and with | tke lunch with him. each show of life Deputy Superintendent of Police Watts renewed his On several occasions, {t {8 reported, there was some conflict In dates knocking upon the, door. and the two young girls just missed meeting in the Bigelow street house, Once, shortly after 6 o'clock, there were sounds of a woman's voice in| Miss Linnell was inside when Miss Edmonds drove up. Richeson managed an upper room, while some one, evidently fearful the sound would be| ‘© rush out and side-track his Brookline betrothed, however, and the se- cret remained Intact until the day of the tragedy. ACCUSED PASTOR IS FROM VIRGINIA. | Clarence V. T. Richeson is a Virginian, @ native of Amherst County. }le was born and reared near Lynchburg and is thirty-four years old | His father, T. V. Richeson, still occupies the old family homestead. Leaving home, after he had graduated from the high school at Am- Officers out here and they want to speak with him? ‘Tell him that wo | Derst Court House, Va, he went to Carroll County, Missouri, and worked don't want to break down the door, but that we must ace him and ghatt |{% * Wille on a cousin's farm, Then he decided to join the ministy and wait here until be lets us in.” ;moved to St. Louls, where he got a job as a motorman. By piloting trol- In scarcely two minutes the mald motioned to the oMcers to proceed | !°Y “ars of and on he worked his way through the William Jewell Col- around the house to the front door. The door was opened and the long! 6° * liberty, Mo. From there ie went to a theological seminary in vigil was over. Chief Dugan, Deputy Watts, Sergt, Rutherford and Sten. | Newtown, Mass, and speeialized in Old Testament history. He was ographer Hucker at once entered the house, | admitted to the Baptist ministry in the Third Baptist Church in St. Louis A few minutes {in 19h @ cistain i a snail front turret window was} ‘ 4. Chief Watts’s face appeared for a moment, and his hand waved Richegon was an itinerant preacher in the West until he got his first | call to the Hyannis (Mass.) Baptist Church. He had made quite a repu- ® signal which every newspaper man had been instructed to understand, tation for himself in Missour! as an impassioned exhorter. While he was Instantly a score of newspapef men jumped and ran for telephones to flash the intelligence to the papers and press arsoclations, | working his way through the little college at Liberty he had taken part in raflroad strikes and made himself felt among the strikers as an orator MINISTER APPEARS UNDER ARREST, \d leader, but always for peace. From the windows of the half dozen magnificent residences within | View of the Edmands home there gazed the etrained faces of men ana| Ta ae Women, the householders discreetly shading their faces behind draperies | @pd curtains, while servants boldly raised windows and watched vws| Police Question Woman : @icers, All bad been aroused early by the pounding and cas upon the | on Minister’s Past Life Edmands bome and understood what the noise meant. Fifteen minutes | SALT LAKE, Utah, Oct. %.—Mias in Richeson, whe e Sear 1 ph pcg ean eae ee map Chief Dugan | rece Felts of Independence, Mo., who) William penal College riers ee ey eson Walking between | ax en questioned by wire by the Bos- | it ts sald she loaned Richeson sufficient on police as to th past life of Rev. | money to complete his education. Since The minister stopped an instant on the threshold of the mansion to Clarence VT. Richeson, 1s seriously til} the ordination as a minister Rtcheson adjust his black fedora hat; then calmly, without sign or trace of emotion nhs Pree t pais ies hasta Mia Tell Levitra digi dea ee or worry, he walked easily down the path to the street. A battery of | = ~ oe ae cameras snapped as he approached the taxicab, but It was eleven minutes after seven before any response could be ob- tained from any one inside the house. Then, after having repeatedly seen the face of a maid at the kitchen window, Chief Dugan prevailed on the woman to remain near the locked door long enough to persuade her to take a message to the master of the house. “Will you kindly tell Mr. Edmands,” said the chief, “that there are | s wife's ery for help and descended baser nt to change the tide of i He tootes every bit the minister, attired in black frock coat and dark Sie Me aiivel Mire. Lang je and wearing spectacles. trom could see the tide going a : her husband. She rushed. acres KNOW ALL RICHESON'S MOVEMENTS. from the house and telephoned The police have @ chart of Clarence Richeson'’s every aporaaeet on lc aie POOR Eh BORE the day of Avis Linnell’s death. They know that he remained in i be boarding place at No. 147 Magazino street, Cambridge, until ey : aah it o'clock Saturday afternoon, ostensibly preparing his sermon for the fol- They arrived in time to. a Mt Lunges lowing day. He left Cambridge, rode through Watertown in the trolley {strom had the upper hand and was fast | winning the fight the police to Newton Centre and thence proceeded to Boston. He met Avis Linnell at the South Station and they had luncheon together. A few bours alter she returned to the Y. W. C. A. building, About the time : ve °| Mrs , the Rev. Richeson got back to his Cau iriaee ree Pe Ee Mrs, Lungstrom stom an Husband The Hyannis girl had been living at the Y. W. C. A, home since she | Barricade took up her studies in the New Hogland Conservatory of Music. She roomed with Miss Lucille Ziegler and after se had nia the fatal qoul of eyanide she died in Miss Ziegler’s arms. | Themselves in the Basement of Bagg’s Home. “y ” A i get a housek Sho died,” 1s Miss Ziexler’s account of the tragedy, “about twenty: «1 yirea her to be my housekeeper andj Mrs Basi, sive i five minutes after 1 had gone to our room and found her with her feet | sie oedered me out of my own house “(is iy, ORAL EP toh in hot water in the bathtub. Only an hour before she died she was at the! said Mra. Frank Ba inner table with us, laughing and joking as though she didn't have a care| World reporter t in the world. Before dinner I saw her in the .vading room. Suddenly she | boratohed: sve dropped a newspaper as if she were startled by something che had read, | Ue Coture: Me ts | shortly a (It 1s presumed that the young girl read the first published announcement | houseke« day, while a playing nd a despondent look- tof a pitched battle ween the militant hushanl on one| Mars . Was aken from yesterday by a of the coming marriage of Richeson and Miss Edmonds.) je and he Take family on the other | mob of about thirty men and lynched, ‘pi i Ree irs j Penn week ago Mrs. Bugs, who conducts | === ty GIRL WAS AT WORK ON WEDDING DRESS. # footing house at No. a6 Weet Tw | “Bhe never told me a great deal about ber private affairs,” declared ty-four H et, advertised fae a hou Loss of Appetite ii } k 1 answer caine Mrs, Ke Mise Ziegler, “but it was generally understood in the building that she Lungstrom, acco: naanion by her in \\s loss of vitality, vigor or tone, and is was engaged to be married and that the ceremony was to be performed | bam, Who declared his Intention of ald ‘often w forerunner of prostrating dis- soon, 1 know I got the impression that she was at work on her trousseau, | (0% 2%! abetting is wife In the tash She never spoke to me, though, of Rev. Kicheson as her flance.” heh ay aae as but the) ds, 1a erlang apd capeoially ap to. house work he Lungs: | peo; ° doi Avis Linnell was buried at Hyannis on ‘Tuesday, tho entire vitiago| tome aia not 1 people that must keep up and doing or | not come up to ex ectations. | | turning out to mourn, p ations. | get behindhand, There was much wonder over the absence of the| The Bases held a coun The best medicine to take for it is, GIRL CONFESSES ROBBING HOME SO SHE COULD ELOPE Year - Old Mauermann Admits Tale } of Thugs Was False. 3THEART ARREST! Sixteen - SW 2D. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, ‘OCTOBER 20, 1911. ‘OMEN TT ~INMMINEASBLAST doned Tunnel on Gang 300 | E eet Below Surface HIBE AT nN. OJ. NIA, | Parents Bitter and Declare They Galleries Fill Rapidly and It i Will Prosecute Her for Steal- ing Their $218 James Connolly, }whom Emma Mauermann, year-old girl who told a |iacked and tortured her in her who has been traveling for was held the Jury © in Weat 2 charge of abduction emann, th | #218, past week on a pleasure jaunt, for by without bal Magistrate O'¢ Court to-day preferred by Ierrmay girl's father ‘The girl, agalust whon charge of larceny had t went to the House held as a mater in the abduc tlon case against her sweetheart, was no hearing of the nolly walved examination. The pair were arrested last night as they Cortlandt street by Detectives Quinn, Donnelly and Fay of the West One Hundredth street station, who have been working on t story of the robbery of the Mauer home ever since tt was reporied. Atter the arrest the young couple were take: » the West Sixty-eighth street police station, whete they were separated, and each was subjected to @ ng examination, The girl t down finally a sed that hie tire story of was a fabrica had stolen the $218, had kept the money iu her bedroom qnd tlaally had fled with it, taking Connolly with her, ‘The girl said that she and Connolly, who worked in a laundry, had wanted to get married for a long thme, but that her parents would not permit it. The old pepole tried to persuade her to give up Connolly and devote more time to learning the trado of dressmaker, at which she was an apprentice. Fearing that Connolly would be ford come to the ermann home, the girl sald she took the $218, and, awalting a favorable opportunity, slipped away with Connolly, intending to get married. ELOPERS TOOK BOY ALONG AS A VALET. ‘The elopers disappeared a week ago yesterday, taking a youth named Miller with them as vaiet, ‘They went first to ftochester, then to #yracuse, Minghamp- ton, Albany and Joston, finally coming to Newark, N. J., two days ago, when their supply of money began to dwind!e. They tried (o get married in Syracuse, but could not get a license. Their arrest jasi night was due to picture postal cards the girl had seot seare on and that she to @ girl nd in the efty from the various places they visited, The gir! to whom the cards were sent told Mrs, Mauermann, the mother, who informed the police, und when the clopers reached Newark the police here knew of it very They ar ranged with the to Ko to 2 August stree ad- friend accompanied them to New York, and when the three left the ferryboat detectives were waiting and at once placed Connelly Mauermann under arrest FOUND DAUGHTER BOUND TO A CHAIR. About 4.99 o'clock on the afternoon of Sept. 10 Mra. Maue: ame home yn the and found her daughie kitchen tloor, ying @ iowel Wrapped her feet ued a chair aye togetaer fright and it! could tell | At last she declared that tour men had come to apartment, representing that they we: gas inspectors and that she had jet) them in, She said that they had attacked ber and demanded to know where her fau er's saving were kept. Sue refused to tell and the men tortured her until she could bear it no longer, where to find the money. After the girl confessed Iast night she seemed willing to tell everything she knew and gave # circumstantial narra- tive of her journey, what had happened to her. OL GOP holenome smack to thease Autu wwe: i y to fit ie se October dirs. POUND BOX HOMS—Dr, Wiley himself could vise @ purer, more wholesome or nourtehing sweetment than Park Kow and All our stores 0 Milk Chocolate Covered Cambridge pastor, who had appeared for two years to be eve: decided tha Mr 8. Kass th pven more than the great constitutional remedy RM dovoied (read. Hile {allure to qo to the Y.W. CA, tailding woce cet | ihe leungstroms that thet Hood's S. aril Assorted Fresh Frutts fled of Miss Linncll’s death had also excited much comment. It was not| Mra. Bagy attempted to. do ; arsaparilla “it, refranlg 10H and aweet aid known at the time that the police were buliding up an ominous case “armly repuised by the Which purifies and enriches the blood inet coat Shonoste Chan against him lwho catied the aesistance of her hus. {ad builds up the whole system Wifaed in Neng, daury. 9c nd, Then the fray began. ie murd irl wi i Th ered girl was buried in what was to have been her bridal | Bags, who is 4 big strong man, beard | chorolated tablets called Sareatabs, Get it to-day in usual liquid form or PoCko nox The twenty years old, with the sixtecn- rem@kable | story @ month ago of robbers having at- home | before robbing (he familly strong box of the wtel's | and Miss} and told then Special for or Friday, the 20th) Special for Saiu N MOLASSES CREAM, KISSES) ASSORTED CHI AM a es i Oc SPECIAL FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY CHOCOLATE COVERED NUT Bios NUTTED FI je nore 19c tnt perb blending of na~ ture’s goodies, .POUND BON pe MILK CHOCOLATE COVERED FRESH MALAGA GRAPES—The name ts the description-—Juictest of mew crop im- ported Matagas, enveloved |} in that best of nit GOC |] Chorotate.. 20! 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Bo- tween this shaft and the old one, which has been abandoned, was a partition of loge, A blast fired soon after the day shift went to work weakened this bar- way before the subter- adjoining gallery rler so tt gave ranean lake in the LETSINFLOD Emma Water Rushes in From Aban- | In less than a minute the water was | over the miners’ heads and‘they were obliged to swim In the darkness toward | the opening leading to « higher level he place where they were at work was about 200 feet below the surface, Those Who lost their Hves were unable to swim or were pushed down by J while the water rapidly | them. Slaight, the foreman position of safety when the det but he rushed into the subme gained wa upon in a drowning men and was Some of those who escaped \ able to reach the “skip level,” and by means of the skip, or small car, used to carry the miners up and down the sh: reached the surface. Others who were not able to get to the e#kip, had to work thelr way up to the top by a long climb. 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