A MINISTER EXECUTED.
Clarence Richeson, a pastor who murdered his sweetheart, Miss Avis Linnell, was electrocuted at Boston (Mass.) just after midnight on May 22nd. The unhappy man, who since tho final dismissal of his appeal, had given way to unceasing fits of terror and remorse, conducted himself at the end with great fortitude, and as ho walked towards the chair he intoned his favourite hymn, "Some time we'll understand." The girl stood in the way of the minister's marriage to Miss Violet Edmands, a society girl and heiress of Brookline, both through an engagement which still existed between the two, and because of a condition in which Miss Linnell found herself. The girl was deceived into taking a poison given her by Richcsou.
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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 26 July 1912, Page 7
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124A MINISTER EXECUTED. Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 26 July 1912, Page 7
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