The sun., 1908-06-11
HITCHCOCK FOUND NOT GUILTY
JURY BRINGS IN VERDICT AFTER
BEING OUT SEVEN HOURS.
Justice COTS Charge Not Considered
Favorable to the Actor-wiliiam Astor
ChanIer Says He Never Saw tho Ac.
euscrs Urntil the Arrest Of vOecks.

! Chanler Says He Never Saw tho Acs
! cusers Unul the Arrest Of VOecks.
! Raymond Hitchcock, the actor, charged
with attempted assault on Helen Won
Hagen. l6 years old. was declared not
| guilty shortly before 8 O'Clock this morn
ing by the jury which has been trying
! him in the Supreme Court, Criminal Branch.
| Hitchcock remains in the Tombs. He
will give beil this morning on the other
indictments 1t is not likely that he will
| have to stand trial again.
The jury retired at 7:3O o'clock last night.
Nothing was heard from the jury until
1890 O'clock this morning, when they sent
1 In word that they wanted instructions on
| the meaning Of reasonable doubt. Justice
| Goff read the definition that has been sus
tanned by the Court OF Appeals.
Juror No Q asked II juror could draw
inferences from evidence which was not
clearly established. Justice Con said that
| juror could draw inferences from any
facts proved.
! Juror No. Q wanted to know what juror
! should do In case the evidence was evenly
balanced. The Judge said that in such
case the jury should give the benefit OF
roabOnupio uOuDt 10 VIC uci0huaht' Ahho
was satisfactory and the jury retired.
Justice Gosf rushed the last day OF the
trial with all possible speed. Late in the
afternoon Max Steuer, counsel for Hitch
cock. began to sum up. He and Assistant
District Attorney Garvan had only an hour
each.
Justice COTS charge to the jury lasted
about an hour and q half, although with
Al - ,<f nj th<a
! principal points Of the evidence he con-
! fined his remarks to the law. There were
three counts in the Observation-Disclosures
assault on a girl under 49, abduction and
plain assault Referring to the witnesses
who testified to Hitchcock good reputation
Justice Goff said that such evidence did not
mean that man who had good character
could not commit a crime.
During part OF Justice COTS charge,
which was not considered favorable to
Hitchcock, Hitchcocks wife cried. She
sat next to Flora Winston, who was in court
all day. Most OF the time the court room
doors were closed because there were no
vacant seats inside.
Most Of the day had been devoted to
hearing the last testimony from both sides.
Several witnesses were produced to show
Among them were Judge Adelbert c. Rich
Of Auburn. Supreme Court Justice Hem
drick and Justice Olmsted Of Special Ses-
sious. Each was asked by Mr.. Garvan
IL he knew that Hitchcocks first wife had
got divorce from him ON the ground Of
adultery. None knew IL.
Herman Rupke, Hitchcock's valet, told
about the automobile ride Hitchcock gave
to Elsie Voecks and Helen Won Hagen to
Great Neck. He said that Hitchcock sent
them home that evening. but on the next
Sunday afternoon he found the two girls
on the stairs in the Hitchcock home. He
sent them away-it was about 2:so o'clock
in the afternoon-but about 1880 o'clock
that night he found them on the porch and
took them in.
@Mr. Chanler was not there that night"
said Rupke.
The next morning Hitchcock gave the
girls breakfast and sent them away. Helen
Won Hagen had testified that Hitchcock
took her and another girl to Great Neck
the following Thursday night. but the valet
said that Hitchcock did not come homo
that evening at all.
Rupke said he was in the Forty-first
street house when Hitchcock brought the
Won Hagen and Voecks girls to the house
and questioned them about the scandalous
stories he had heard they were circulating
about him.
"Mr. Hitchcock told Them said Rupke,
-that they wore telling nasty stories about
him and Mr.. Chanler and the girls denied
it."
Rupke corroborated Hitchcock's ver-
sion of what happened on that occasion,
and then Mr., Garvan oross-examined him.
The valet said that MIR. Garvan at pre-
liminary inquiry had threatened him. shaken
q fist in his face and said he would send
him to jail.
Mary Won Hagen. mother of Helen,
testified that she had seen her daughter
in the House Of the Good Shepherd and
asked her what she had been doing with
Mr.. Hitchcock The girl said that there
was nothing wrong. With all the sim
oerity Of my heart she said to her mother.
Il am telling you the gospel truth Helen
said further that the Gerry agents were
trying to get her to testify against Hitoh-
cock.
Mrs. Won Hagen. who has q fine Irish
brogue, treated Mr.. Garvan as II he was a
young man she would like to spank. He
asked her II she hadn't been to his Office
urging him to prosecute Hitchcock
"Why MIR. Garvan, Mister Garvan, Mis,sr
0arvan.' she repeated with tone Of re-
proaoh which made the court room laugh,
Il never did,"
William Astor Chanler testified that he
had never seen Elsie and Helen until after
the arrest OF Hugo Voecks. He had never
seen them at Great Neck at all.
Mr.. Garvan sprang q surprise a little
later. He produced girl who looked
younger than any who have appeared in
the case. She said she was Caroline
Madeline Tegetmeyer and seemed to be
about IL. She said she had been In the
Forty first street house in November, 1905.
Mr.. Garvan asked her II she knew the de-
fendant. but apparently not understanding
the meaning OF the word defendant" she
said she did not. But on the next question
she said she knew Raymond Hitchcock
and had seen him in the house.
Lawyer Steuer didn't ask question OF
her, but he jumped Hitchcock TO the stand
at once. The actor said he had never seen
tho Girl bafore and ha pavar uaa In tho