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"The case is still open and will be until we have determined just what hap. pened to Mrs. nisch." Last night Droney sent two investigators to New York to talk to the missing woman's husband, Martin, who is there on a business trip. Reached in New York, Risch said he knew his wife was an avid reader of detective and mystery fiction stories but was not aware that the majority of the books she read dealt with disappearances. lie said he hoped the new information would help police in locating his wife and was pleased that police are continuing their investigation.

Risch has always strongly believed that his wife would be found alive and has kept the same telephone number in case she or anyone who might know where she is could contact him immediately. The books read by Mrs. Risch were taken from the Lincoln Library on the Risch family library card. Many of the books dealt with disappearance into a new life, abduction or self-imposed exile. RISCII HOME IN.LINCOLN MARTIN Joans husband met by the little girl who reported her mother was missing and there was "red paint" all over the kitchen.

Mrs. Barker called police The "red paint" IA' a blood. Most of it was on the kitchen floor. There were a few drops in the master bedroom upstairs, on the stairs, in the driveway, and on the right rear fender and trunk of the Risch car, parked there. A pool of blood was in a corner of the kitchen under a wall telephone.

The receiver had been torn from the phone. Three feet above, on the wall, was a blood smear. There was blood on the telephone dial, and bloody fingerprints and a palm print on the sides of the door leading to the living room. Authorities have never been A yor 0 yorolerriprir-1 qr DIST. ATTY.

DRONEY Leads investigation able to trace the prints found in the kitchen. There was one other thing of interest in that room. The local telephone book lay on a counter by the sink. It was open to the page listing emergency numbers and instructions for making long-distance calls. Was Joan Risch trying to call police for help when whatever happened, hap.

pened? Had she started to call somebody out of townperhaps her husband? These are among the questions that so far have proved unanswerable. But with the new information in their hands, police hope eventually to erase every question mark in the case of Mrs. Joan Risch, Lincoln housewife. 4" or, 1 It 1 1 i i A A i TILE velopment, the Globe immediately placed all facts into the hands of Droney and Lincoln police. The possible importance of this information may be gauged in the light of the almost total lack of clues uncovered to date in the case.

Bloodstains in the kitchen, a report of an auto near the Risch home nothing else, until now, that offered even the vaguest hope of a solid lead. The day the 32-year-old housewife vanished police found a book open on a table in the home. It was a novel about Mary, Queen of Scots, who was beheaded. This was taken from the library Oct. 16eight days before her disappearance.

Called "Immortal Queen," it had details of the contrived "rape" and abduction of Mary. Poring over the list of books taken out by Mrs. Risch or her husband, police found among them these themes which seemed relevant to the case before them: An orphan girl (Mrs. Risch was an orphan) vanishes; a man stages his own disappearance; a woman flees her home to start life anew; a man runs away to escape problems; a wife disappears without trace; a vanishes on purpose. There are others, too, on the list, which add to the obvious pattern of flight, for whatever reason, and disappearance, contrived or otherwise.

Taste your vihiskey. Then taste Calvert. LEO J. ALGEO Police Commissioner Ilan. At 2 p.m.

Mrs. Risch took the youngsters back to the Barker yard. At 2:15 Mrs. Barker caught a glimpse of Mrs. Risch in her front yard, walking fast, and then lost sight of her through the thick foliage of trees and bushes.

At 3:30 a neighbor's 14- year-old daughter saw a strange car parked in the rear of the Risch driveway. By ROBERT HEALY (Globe Political Editor) Tomorrow night officially marks the wake of the Democratic Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners in Massa. ehusetts. The Democratic State Committee will be getting an official slice of Gov. Peabody's 1 birthday dinner at the Statler Hilton It will afford the committee a Thursday night.

0' '''''') little financial muscle and a new inde- i' pendence which it has never known los in this state. The dinner already is a howling 0 Some 2000 Democrats will break Jek, bread with the governor and listen ,,,..491. success. HEALY to Secretary of Agriculture Orville F. Freeman chant the party line.

The Democrats are expected to take in over $200,000. In the past the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinnirs have been run by and for a select few in the Democratic Party. If the select few got along well with the chairman of the party, they would make expense money available for the operation of the committee. But never was any guarantee for the committee. Things are beginning to change.

Like most political dinners immediately following a campaign, this will be somewhat of a bailout operation. Gov. Peabody and Lt. Gov. Bellotti went into hock in the final days or the campaign and the bulk of the funds will be delivered r.r..--,--,---m,,,, to this campaign deficit.

If the dinner goes over i 1 the top as expected, the funds will be cut up this way: Pea- I 1,1 body will get Bel- 1, lotti will get $50,000 and the :5 state committee will get 4 $50,000 plus. That was the agreement when the dinner was set up. The $100,000 that Peabody gets will eliminate his cam- iii paign debt. Bellotti's purse PEABODY for the evening will do the same. Peabody in the home stretch of his campaign simply ran out of funds.

His campaign was already in debt by close to $20,000. One of those grim campaign meetings was called to assess his chances. Without money it was clear there was none. A figure of $80,000 was set to complete the campaign in high gear and the governor and his associates got a mortgage on Peabody's future for that amount. The arrangement was that win or lose there would be a dinner for Peabody to cover the deficit.

The Bellotti story is not unlike that of Peabody. The winners, of course, have an easier time raising funds than do the losers. The banquet will attest to this rule of thumb tomorrow night. But the real change will be the role of the state committee which has long 1 been the orphan at this kind 4 of affair. One of the major reforms 1 in the state committee prom- 1 ViQiiiww ised by both Sen.

Kennedy and Gov. Peabody was the 1 II.r... change ge in the fund-raising ac- tivities of the party. If there is to be a rebirth i of the Democratic Party here, 'liA as they both have promised, it will take money for the BELLOTTI Democratic State Committee operation. The committee must have funds for any kind of a grass roots campaign operation of the scope planned.

The program of the proposed policy committee which will be a combined operation of the eggheads in the party and the thinking members of the state committee also will need new financial backing. The Democrats will probably run another fundraising dinner in the Fall which will have the backing of Kennedy, Peabody and the other Democratic state constitutional officers. And this dinner will benefit the state committee again. One thing is certain, however, the old Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners are a thing of the past. Demo chuse NE Freen $200,0 Ii have cratie the cl mone: mittel Ing a opera hock of th( to th the tc will I body lotti state agree was 5 11 gets paign for tl simiol in de paign With 41 paign got a 1 woull 'I Ten minutes later another neighbor saw a car backing out of the Risch driveway.

At 3:45 Mrs. Barker took Lillian across the street to the Risch home, and went shopping. She came back at 4:15, to be CALVERT OIST. K. IS PROOF.

ILENDED MIISKEY 65 CRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS El 17, 1.21, PET Izr- d.A.Em2 LI THE TAB, CLIFFORD AND LOW SLOPE three distinctive Brooks collar styles, each of which serves a special purpose In addition to the famous 'Brooks 3 Trio'button-down, i 60 round and l'N plain collarswe have several in 7 plain collarswe have several in- LT FRANK T. JOYCE State Police On June 10 came "Rabbit, Run," in which a man takes flight from personal problems. May Thin Air," about an actress who disappears, leaving towel and bloodstains as clues. Ten days before that it was "The Hunt for Richard Thorpe," in which a schoolboy disappears on purpose and a book he has been reading turns out to be a clue. The same day, oddly enough, another book Mary Queen of Scots was taken from the library.

This was a biography, not a novel. On Apr. 21 it was "The Hollow," about a woman who kills her husband and schemes to turn suspicion away from herself. The first in the series, on Apr. 20, was "The Legacy," in which a boy purposely disappears.

The pattern in all these books is clear even to the most casual observer. And authorities believe this patetrn may hold the key to the real-life mystery they have been striving for 16 months to solve. The case has been a baffler from the start. Police have had little to work with. Oct.

24, 1961, started out for Mrs. Joan Risch as in uneventful day not much different from any other day in her life or the life of any other suburban wife. At 7 a.m. her husband left the house to fly to New York on business. She gave her children, Lillian, 4, and 2-year-old David breakfast, did her household chores, and prepared for a mid-morning dental appointment in Bedford.

She left David with a neighbor, Mrs. Barbara Barker, and took Lillian to the dentist's with her. After the appointment, she spent some time shopping in Bedford. At 11 a.m. she arrived home and picked up David.

She talked to a cleaning firm salesman at her home. She appeared perfectly normal, was alone except for the children. After lunch Mrs. Barker brought her children to the Risch yard to play with Lil Lincoln Police Commr. Leo Algeo told the Globe: "This is a very interesting development.

We are following it just as hard as we can." Droney and Algeo will meet today to discuss the latest developments in the case after receiving a report from their investigators in New York. Droney sent State Police Lt Det Frank Joyce of his office with acting Lincoln Chief Daniel McGinnis to take the information to Risch. Droney also said he is arranging with State Police to send circulars with Mrs. Risch's description and picture to public libraries and bookstores all over the East. Similar circulars previously have been sent to the major booki publishing houses in New York.

Droney said Risch told him a year ago he was Convinced his wife is still alive and that, with her experience, the only sobs she could hold would be in a bookstore, library or publishing firm or as a waitress. "I said a year ago," the district attorney added, "that if the case was to be solved at all it would be solved through Lincoln people." It was, indeed, through Lincoln people that the dramatic new turn in the case came about. Recently Sareen Gerson, Lincoln editor of the Fence Viewer, the local weekly newspaper, began examining the reading habits of Mr. and Mrs. Risch in cooperation with the Public Library trustees.

She examined the books taken from the library on the Risch family card. The trustees decided to disclose the titles as a possible aid in solving the case. This information was brought to the attention of the Globe. After looking into this latest de 47 4 dividual exclusive styles for men who require or prefer a variation 4 of these basic models. Each one is ll designed to enhance the appear- i I ance of the wearer.

And of course the shirts themselves are made in our own workrooms, of fine mate Authorities concede this obvious pattern might be partly coincidental. After all, many people like mystery thrillers. But these were not quite the ordinary whodunit sort of mystery, but rather a carefully culled selection of plots of the vanishing-into-thin-air type. Why? The answer to this question may provide the answer to the larger question: What happened to Joan Risch? There were, to be sure, other books with subjects less 'violent, and themes less mysterious, on the Risch reading list. The novel of the desperate life and bloody death of Mary Queen of Scots was the last library book taken out on the Risch card.

Two weeks before that, on Oct. 2, was "Incense to Idols," a novel about a woman who flees from Paris to anonymity in New Zealand, with the intent of starting a new life. Taken out on Sept. 18 was "The Twenty-Seventh Wife," a biography of a wife of Mormon Brigham Young, who disappears. On Aug.

2 it was "The Screaming Rabbit," a mystery novel with disappearance as the theme. A visit to the library on July 6 produced "Mostly Murder," a case book on murders and disappearances. Ten days earlier the book was "Death of the Heart," about an orphan girl who vanishes. rials woven for us and with single-needle stitching throughout. 1 11' 1 .4,...,4 I I 1 I iti iiii School Series On Vacation mid-Winter vacation in Massachusetts public schools.

It will continue next Wednesday with an article on the Burlington public schools. The Globe's weekly series on "Row Good Are Your Schools?" by education writer Ian Forman does not appear In today's edition, owing to TOP TO BOTTOM THE TAB, our own version of the English tab, and preferred by the slender man. In white broadcloth, $9.50 striped English or tan on 1 0.5 0 THE CLIFFORD, a button-down collar whose shorter points and straight lines give a trim appearancemaking it ideal for town or business wear. In striped English broadcloth blue, tan or grey on white, in white long staple cotton oxford, $8.50 THE Low.sLoPE, made with narrower sides and shorter points than our regular plain collar, which lets it set lower on the neck and minimizes bulging or wrinkling. Ideal for the husky man.

In white broadcloth, $9.50 DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham List of Library Books Taken Out Before Mrs. Risch Disappeared Sizes 11-32 to 1712-36. orders 1 v-9 b. tL- i I I6 I ct 1 ti (1 7 ill lidt te A ill 1 dib OP C71 laa 1 111111 2:111 ISTABLISHED 1811 "Qh rh1Y Books taken from Lincoln Library on the Risch family card starting Apr. 20, 1961.

Apr. Legacy," a novel about a boy who leaves a military academy and hides in the woods. Apr. Hollow," a about a woman who kills her husband and arranges for her fingerprints to be disguised. Apr.

29A biography of Mary, Queen of Scots. Apr. Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton. Apr. Hunt for Richard Thorpe." A Lchoo' 'disappears on purpose.

A book he has been reading is a clue. May Thin Air." A woman disappears. Towel and blood smears are clues. May 11-4'The Third Rose." Biography of Gertrude Stein. May 20 "The Hollow." Agatha Christie novel.

June of Passage." Travel book. June 10 "Rabbit, Run." Novel concerning flight from problems. June of Air." A novel. June of the Heart." Orphan girl disappears. June 26 "Japanese Inn." Historical book.

July Murder." Autobiography of a leading authority concerning murders and disappearances. July Guide Trees." Nature book. July on Concord and Merrimack Rivers." Thoreau book. Aug. on the Grass." Fiction with African setting.

Aug. and Experience." Essays on poetry and poets. Aug. Sreaming Rabbit." Mystery novel in which a man disappears. Aug.

Enough and Time." Sept. 16 "The Twenty Seventh Wife." Biography of a wife of Brigham Young who disappears. Oct. Proud Possessors." Book on art collectors. Oct.

to Idols." Novel about a woman who flees Paris for New Zealand. Oct. Queen." Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots. life. Found in her home at time of cEsappearance.

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