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Show ;GIRL OF 15 ES1SES TEX RICHRDj OF BOXINS ON GRAVE OWE1 New Yorker Alleged to Have Assaulted Child in His Garden iRICKARD IS SILENT Bail of $1000 Posted for Appearance January Twenty-fifth NSW YORK. Jan. 21. Tex Rick-ard. Rick-ard. boxing promoter, today was ar-este.i ar-este.i on a charge of criminal assault made by the Children's society on the Complaint of a 15-year-old girl, Two 1 other girls were held as witnesses It v. us b -a i iied I hat a bench warrant had been Issued yesterday afternoon. Hearing of it Ibis morning. Rickard promptly surrendered himself In a I West tSide court with counsel. "He was held in $1,000 bull for examination January XT! Rickard said he had no statement to m ike at thi tune. According to Vincent Pizarra. superintendent sup-erintendent of tho Children's society, the promoter of the DAtapsey-Carpen-tler match and other famous bouts, accosted three girls last summer at the swimming nool which he ran in IHfadiSon Square garden He also al-leged al-leged that Rickard took two of tho girls. Alice Ruck. 1 j and Anna Hess, j 11, to an apartment and Inter offered them some wine, after which he was 'said to have assaulted tho Ruck girl in the garden tower, i After a complaint had been made to the society, the three girls were held i on a blanket charge of incorrigibility. The girls were questioned last nlht by the district attorney's office and the warrant was then issued. in bis statement to tho court Pie-zarra Pie-zarra said: (.litis IN HOSPITAD. Alice Ruck and Anna HeSS went to Bellevue hospital a few days ago and told a physician that they were afraid to go homo because they had remained out too late. '1 hey told this physician ,also that they had both taken iodine. "He at once placed them under ob-! ob-! servatlon and notified the Children's society, which then tooK charge of them. They were examined by Dr. I Glbb "t the society, who according to I his statement discovered that Alice (tuck had been assaulted." After entering a plea of not guilty for his clb nt .Attorney .Max D Steur I Issued the following statement; RICKARD SURPRISED. "Mr. Rickard is the most surprised !man in the world. Ho had nothing to do with this case. He knows nothing j about it." . Several men well know"n In the j world of sport w ere In court w hen Rickard was arraigned Rickard did his best to hide his face from a battery bat-tery of newspaper photographers, even holding an umbrella over his head as a soreen when he entered a toxkab. it was learned that detectives were , looking for Rickard at tho Herman Reisler bout in the Garden last night At that time h. was reported to be In his offices in tho luthatory of the Lower. jjj This lower, crowned with a bronze statue of Diana, figured in the Thaw case as containing the room attached to the Mtud of Stanford White. |