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--mr w rtSC tWS wmmmmvm And just then a deputy sheriff came along- the corridor and stopped by my side at the cell door. "Richeson," he said, "it is my duty to read to you the five counts in an indictment returned by the grand jury charging you with the murder of Avis Linnell. The indictment charges murder in the first degree, the penalty for which is death in the electric chair. Riche'sonstaggered, and caught at the bars to support himself. His face worked convulsively for a moment or two, and then he seemed to steady himself with an effort. The deputy sheriff began reading-the indictment. As the reading went on in the dull monotone of the officer of the law, Richeson began to break 'down. To me, it almost seemed as if I could see the man begin to crumple up. Before the reading was finish ed, Richeson had staggered from the barred doorway to the cot, and sat with his head buried in his hands. I could hear'him sob, as I turned away from the door with the deputy sheriff. "That," said the officer to me, "is the most extraordinary in dictment ever returned in the state of Massachusetts. It charges first degree1 murder on five counts, and does nofin one pf them say how Richeson hancj 'ed the poison to Avis Linnell. j "But all of them hint that 'he did so after telling Ker that it was a medicine to save her from her shame." -a- - - " j Jackson Park Gives Up - , $1,433 In Phoney Coin. Secret S'ervide operatives today grubbed ,ovef a part .of Wooded Island, in Jackson Park, and dug up $1,433 in counterfeit coin, to gether with a die; following an alleged concession by one .of the members of a trio of alleged shov ers of the queer. . The gang, according to the se cret service operatives, included Leon Albert,. Rudolph Swanson, and Fred Marneck, who were rounded up, at New York. Swan son is. said to have given the treasury agents the secret of the hiding place of the coin and dies, THE LATEST NEWS Willie Hogue, Terre Haute, cleaning pants with gasoline. Careless father threw match near him. Willie eating meals off man telshelf. i Frod Cole, Dixon, HI., answer ed advertisements of women for. husbands under assumed name. His bail is fixed at $1,000. ' W. D. Summer asked K. C. Court of Appeals to disbar him from practice of law. Said charges against him true, and he didn't want judges to write opin ion about him. Louis Zick fell five stories from building in Baltimore Chopping district. Struck Miss Carrie Wiltback. Both dying. " Lillian Forcher, 8, Port Wash ington, O., choked unconscious by i blacksnake which 'dropped from 'rodf and'coiled around neck. klMMMMMkM