Show n. RAYMOND Y D HITCHCOCK'S CASE CASK I The Thc New York court could do nothing le less s In Inthe inthe I Ithe the cas cases against na Raymond mond Hitchcock actor than thai find him not guilty Tho The charges of oC debauching young oun girls was not nott at t all proven pro I nut nul no man can behave toward girls girl s ashe as aR hr he tp behaved cd toward tho the complaining witnesses in inthe Inthe Inthe the cases ti against him and convince an any one above c the age of oC seven j years earn ars that ho Is doing right Ho TIe HoIs Is is In fact doing wrong He lIe took thorn them riding in his automobile poor automobIle poor little tie girls girl fifteen years ears old old and without nn any friend 0 or older person girls whom ho he did not know lenow lit little little lit lit- tle tic girls of or a great city hungry for pleasure seeing I evidences o of what s seems ms heavenly to them ann and which they can never nc hope to enjo enjoy unless g the they can catch tho the favor of some rich man who cares nothing for Cor convention He lIe tool them once to his countr country hO house and kept th them 01 there without a no chaperone until nearly midnight m Ho lie says a s 's he sent them them home homo n on tho the train that night Another night ho says aYR the la last t train had gone back to the city when they were ready to return and so they r remained in 0 his house all nil night Ho lie took th them m to hi his town house house the tho house house with the gr green en blinds With n n. valet who wore to anything which would clear him and anel against t cv thing everything tho the girTh had testified against him and with all the tho weight ht of their po poverty port rt their friendlessness s. s their lack of knowledge o or of or guidance against ag them the they could not make their charges hold And the jur Jury had to declare the man nian was not proven pro utility guilty If na Raymond Hitchcock thinks that mat himIn mm him In th the judgment and the tho belief of at American people peo peo- pIe ho has Jc less s wisdom than tho the girls with whom ho made so free Cree If he thinks tho the men and women of or the thc world b believe he did diet right or that that h hc ic e did not do 10 wrong he ho Is as foolish as h ho he once w was vas as funny tinny No Xo man of or mature years ars can take little girls n not ot of or his acquaintance and convey them about t town own and countr country In an nn automobile or an any oth other r vehicle at night without protection for Cor them ansi and m mean ean well b by ly them He lIe cannot take tako them to hI o own wn remote and isolated house and keep them o over oer ver night He Tie cannot flatter them with attentions a and nd turn their poor weak weal hea heads s with his dI display o of at f money money and and leave lea them unharmed This man has done cruelly wrong Ills His acquittal m may mao ay mean the condemnation of oC tho the girl girt But Hut it ir itIs Is Js just one chapter in a blacker condemnation tIon lor tor l. l himself What hat effect It will have havo on h his hs career careers a 5 0 S an actor we do not no now But nut tho the effect It s should hould have is to recall him to the fact th that a n man who ho would do what he h his has s dono dona has lived too long A Ami It the If th thc law cannot make a an end of him he ho s hould should do it himself The world would be better without him |