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Show tex mum ASKED GIRL TO LIE, SHE SAYS Evidence of Criminal Assault As-sault Piles Up Against Noted Promoter N I ! VV VnKK. March 22. Resuming Resum-ing her testimony today before a supreme su-preme court Jury trying Tex Rlckard for criminal aaaault, 15-year-old Sarih & hoenfcld declared that three da? after his arrest the sport promote took h.-r and Nellie Gasko, a school girl chum for nn automobile ride through Central Kirk ..n.l told Ihem to say "another man did It" it ihey got caught. Rlckard was under m Ruck. 15. I l I LS SUCH I.I l S" j lun't It too bad." Sarah quoted I Rlckard as alng. that Ayce had ; to t.-ll cuch lies about me. I am awful. 1 awful sorry for her. and wish I could I help her.' Continuing the girl said Rlckard i tol.i them: "Wo mustn't tell on him Nc:'.iu" if we did we would be locked 'jp until we were i,i.nle to tell, and COUldnt'j ! visit our friend.- and have m more gOOd times Sarah said thul after coming out I i of the pr.rk. Ricknrd drove them to an olevjited railway station near their home ; Mux L. Steuer. Rlckard's counsel objected to seviral poriiors of the girl's testimony. One eustalned ob-j Jectlon referred to a telephone conver-j Bastion that the witness said Nellle had with Richard soon after the l.-.t-l ter's arret. i U.l in K IIP The same week thai Rlckard was arrested, ar-rested, Sarah wald she went 10 N. llle's home and learned that her chum had been taken Into custody by tho Children's Child-ren's koi let y The wUucys v.. , she told Rlckard about Ji and he ad-1 flsed her to keep away from Madison' Square Garden for a while. in winding up his direct examine-1 tlon. Assistant District Attorney Poc-cora Poc-cora asked: "Sarah, you never were married to I this defendant, were vou!" N.i sir." she replied nssn ni) - prcm i i imm.v An undei -Klzfd. tousled-hair school- I girl in short dresses S.n . h S ho. nfehi Just over li year-, old. sat in a witness wit-ness chair in supreme court for morel ihan two nouts Tuesday and told Jn-tlce Jn-tlce WiLS.se rvogel and a Jury of alleged ' assault- upon her by Tex Rlckard, In-: ternatlonally known sport promoter As she recited her story In a lisp- I ing o!ce. the man who had arranged I some of the greatest pugilistic ancoun-tersi ancoun-tersi In history -at with arms folded, l statin al her. only occasionally did) he relax and then to whlspei in Ill-counsel's Ill-counsel's ear or to make notes with a pencil. c.IRr, TKId s sTORV The girl told how she had been Introduced In-troduced to Rlckard by her chum. Nellie Qaako lam summer at the aWlmmlng pool in Madison Square Garden He gae them both money, she said, and told them to come and see him at his office in the Tower of the building. L'pon their visit she testified. Rlckard gave them a nole and asked them fo call at .in apartment apart-ment in V'e.st 47' h sfrc t They called at the apartment later and there the alleged assault took place. He gave them each Jin she said, and asked them to call again. Then followed a Mnry of nthe.-vlsits, nthe.-vlsits, all but one. when he was alone (Continued on I'agc Two) TEX RICKARD ASKED GIRL TO LIE, SHE SAYS (Continued F rom Page One) in company with the Gasko girl The.e visits covered several months. She said Rlckard also tried to assault the Gako girl, but that she repulsed him The amount of money he gave them, she said, varied from time to time, ranging from JO to $20. TOId) TO SAY NOTHING. After each alleged assault. Sarah testified, the promoter asked them to tell nothing of what had happened once she asked Rlckard to help get her brother Samuel, out of Jail in Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, where he had been arrested for stealing. Rickard promised to help, she said, and later she brought her mother to see him. A letter was Introduced In evidence, alleged to hae been written to Mr-Sehoenfeld Mr-Sehoenfeld by Rickard on January 18, last, in which he enclosed a letter to the governor of Wisconsin, asking that steps be taken to release Samuel from prison, The letter asked Mrs. Schoen-r'eld Schoen-r'eld to write directly to the governor and t. enclofee the other letter. Sarah was on the stand when adjournment ad-journment was taken. In outlining the case to the Jury, Ferdinand Pe-cora, Pe-cora, assistant district attorney, said that the state would prove that when the news of Rlckard's arrest in connection con-nection with alleged assaults on other oth-er girls was printed, the Schoenfeld unci Gasko girls met him bv telephonic appointment and that during an automobile auto-mobile ride for more than an hour through Central Park, he urged them to tell the authorities nothing of what had happened. oo Making porcelain by a cold method, without tiring the material in the kilu i? reported from Germany, Farmers Education and Co opera-tlve opera-tlve union ol Kansas Is the largest cooperative co-operative institution In the world. I First trans-Atlantic airplane flight in 1919 took 16 hours and 12 minutes |
