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Show Slayer Who, As Execution Nears, Quails 0. V, T. RICHESON TlaEaBBaBaaVaVffiK&sBBBa men TOLD TO prepare death Doomed Man Breaks Down - and. Becomes Hysterical-During Hysterical-During Night. By International News Service. BOSTON, May 17. Willi less than throe days of life loft to him, Clarence V. T. Tficheson. the convicted murderer of Avis Linuell. to whom Governor Poss refused to exteud excculivo cloui-ency, cloui-ency, is now seeking tho consolations of relicion to bear him tup to tho end. His spiritual adviser, tho Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, pastor of the Warren avenue ave-nue Baptist church, and his lawyer, William A. Morse, were with him four hours today. Thoy brought him tho .information 'of '.the governor's decision. Richosou gavc no signs of collapse .and received' tho news with -fortitude. '. When Dr.-. Joseph -I. McLaughlin, the prison physician, camo to i see if he could be of anjr service, Richeson said gloomily: "No, no one can do anything for me now." Later- Richeson was strickou with, an attack of hysterical ' delirium in the death, chamber while being visited by Prison Chaplain Stcbbins and . his counsel, coun-sel, William A. Moore. Twitchiug, and clawing, . the condemned con-demned man rolled and tossed from side to side of his ' bed, raving about two men who, he cried, wero "watching "watch-ing and following" ' him.' Tho prison physician, who was summoned,, could not bo reached aud Dr. Frederick L. Lyons of Cbarlostown was called." Ho administered admin-istered sedatives which' tended to quiet tho patient.' Richoson's breakdown tonight is believed be-lieved to havo been aggravated partly by tho news that, his father had expressed ex-pressed .tho1 wish that his-son'H body be not brought back 'to Virginia for burial, bur-ial, but interred . in souio cemetery about Boston. . . - Less than three days am now allotted allot-ted to Richeson, providod tho expected execution schedule is carried out- It is thought that the, wardon. will summon sum-mon Richeson to tho electric chair soon after midnight Monday. Tho death watch today took awav his eyeglasses and his towel. Ho will be uuahlo to read papers and books from this time on. Most of tho reading read-ing will bo done to him by his visitors. |