The sun., 1907-11-20
HITCHCOCK WILL not TESTIFY
~ an ANLER-HSsARST LEBEL SIR,
PENDENG MS OWN TRIU.

JOIsiIce wat TesIS Ihr Deience thai Il
Wuat wind Cp TO-,iny The Actor wants
an ESrIy Trial TslnisrIr and Is GOinS
to dseI Onc Bella Mckenzie Arrested.
ia ymOnd Hitchcock. tGs comedian.
wants an cary trial nn the ak indictment
against h,m involving assaults on young
girls. Ills lawyer appeared yesterday be-
fore Judge Rosalsky of Genera! Sessions
and announced that adj preliminary motions,
including one for lcave =" inspect the
minutes o; the Grand jury. were vita.
dra va. and that Hitchcoct. wanted 10 ~
TO tria'. Assistant District Attorney Ga
van SAID that he wOuld do his best to act
the trial en- in ten days.
A couple Of hours later HitChcOtk vas
called before Justice Wyatt oN Special Sci
sions as q witness for Villa n Il. H,aTst
on the charge OF criminal libel made ny
William Astor Chsnler. The court room
vas crowded, Little Tim Sullivan and
George Considine, showing up conspiCu-
ouslv. II turned out that they haC been
srbppnaed by the Hearst lawyers.
Il don't know what they need me for.
ssid Little Tim, Maybe IL Is to. lend an
air Of respectabilty to this ga thering'
"Iain't even got a fash Why they dra GgeJ
me OF Broadway said ConSiCiinr.
After a fet inquiries had been male
Little Tim and Considine were told by the
Hearst lawyers that they had been called
by mistake and that they could go away
II they wanted to. They stayed remarkmg
that the ponies we're AZ BeUnngs and there
was no way of catching even the lasi race.
Mr.. Olcott wanted tO know from Hitch
cock If Mr.. Chanler was at his houss at
Great Neck in the latter part Of i0Os SlJcn
two young girls were there. Hitchcock said
somewhat dramatically that he would have
so decline 10 answer. He was under 'ndici-
'nent. he had sought the advice of hls law
yer and he was afraid that anything hr
might say would inCrim!rate him
This witness is under six indictments,
said Mr. Garvan. "and | think IL? las
perfect right 60 refuse TO answer questipps
about the case. I object to him answer
ing"
Sustained" said Justice Wyatt,
Th'rcupou Mr. Olcott asked for mn adj
jouTnTnent. M. Girvan wanted the case
10 go on. as TOO rnuCI time haG been Wss,rU.
'Ihey have five witnesses here and poll
ticiaus galore said MIR. Garvan s'r'as, j
caliy. "One OF them has been taken away
from his work in he Board of Aidermln."
Nothing Of the Kind" replied Mr. Ol ~
II told them that they could go home thIriv
minutes ago"
Justice WYATT granted All adiourni"cnt
until this afternoon. hut annouuCpd tlot
the defCnct must bs prepared 10 comp,jr
its case.
BELLA M'KENzIE POUND AT ruF THEArEr
District Attorney GarvHn .ia SIN - =,
rna ;erial and necessary witness ir Tho Cits'
against Raymond Hitchcock. tho pohrc
last night arrested Bella Mckenzie q s,,icH
girl Of 352 West Fifty-iifih stree toe
arrest was made in the lobby of the ira n
Opera House on Eighth avenue w.ictC
Hitchcock Is now playing.
At Police Headquarters she said thai she
was Is years old She denied that sh" had
been evading subpoena or that she had rn,
away from the Gerry society. She .OIn
Capt. Carey that the Gerry agen; bad seen
her frequently and could easily have served
her with a subp;ena or arrested her il ne had
wished. She said she had gone to he theil-
tire 10 see the play.
Two detectives from the Office of Distrct
Attorney Jerome accompanied by young
girl dressed in brown, called at the Holland
House. Newark. on Monday night and
after a conferences with William kogge.
the proprietor. took away the hotel register
for the season between September. 1875,
and MAY OF this year. The name OF hay
mond Hitchcock was on the register several
timeS