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above thq -wjrit, twisted ,and writhed. Tjie head jutted forward,, suddenly,, jerkjfjr. Frpm under the edge of the little leather cap a wisp of white, smoke puffed atjt. Nineteen liundi:edvalts had been shocked through .the body of the slayer of Avis Linnell. " " ""t"" f" For, half anhour these rnen sat in the dim death chamber, fidget ing In. theirseats, not looking a earn other, never speaking a word. ' v Then, just , before 12 o'clock, Warden Bridges left the ropm. He ..returned with; William A. Morse, Ricftesbh's attorney. Bridges, in"iiisshort, soldierly manner, told of his receipt yester day of envelopes containing cyanr ide of-potassium, the same poison as ihat which sent Avis Linnell to her death. Someone in the corner said: ''That's what the convicts call 'Canadian potash.' " And laugh ed But it was a' broken, unnatural laugh. , Attorney Morse left to say goodbye to Richeson. Warden Bridges raised Kis hand. "Gentleinen," he said, "we are ready." The death chamber was bright, as day. Lying across the arms of the chair, screwed to a bar, was a xlouble row of test lights. The executioner turned the switch. The indicator pulsated to and fro, then steadied down. 3 "Nineteen hundred volts," said the executioner. o "Good," said, Warden Bridges. The swifch was turned back. The 'lights w,ent out, save one high up that, left the room in a Bosjton, Mass., My,21. The .Rev. Clarence Virgij Thompson Richeson -Rid the penalty qf his murder of.Avis Linnell, the. little choir girl of , his chiirctrtn Hyan-Jiiscby-the-Sea, at mi'dnight lat night-' Gbittrary, to all expectations, Rjchespn braced up' at the last moment and we.nt to. his death like a man. - Indeed, the scene in the-death chanihen at midnight was sucfia one as n(eevr before -had occurred at Massachusetts' prison. . "For the first time a. condemned man spoke as he was being strapped, "in the chain; for'the first time a than paid the penaltyfor murder with his lips moving." Richeson'died confessing Christ. At 11 :30 o'clock the prison offi cials and the witnesses-began.to gather'in the death chamber. - They were : The jury of twelve meni; Surgeon Major J. P. Butlfer, Ninth Regiment, M. V. M., who took the place of General Charles Foster ; Prison Physician Joseph I. McLaughlin; Medical .Examin er George B, McGrath; First Dep uty Sheriff Edmund 'P. Kelley Warden Benjamin F. Bridges; Deputy Warden Nathan D.Allen; Rev. Father Murphy, Catholic chaplain of the prison; William C Hill; J. Gootz and J. P. Yder, staff correspondent of the United Pres's. r MM-ivYfiri -ftrttfifefrfr wjfeVSjju. ,,