New-York tribune., 1922-01-22
Tieht Promoter Released
in $1,000 Bail on Com
plaiut Filed by Head of
the Children's Society
Two of Accuser's
Chuns Detained
Arrested in Court, Man
ager of Madison Square
Garden Rdicu]es Charge

George I. ("Tcx") Rickard. boxing
promoter snd lessee Of Madison Square
Garden. vas arrested yesterday in
West Side Court and held in 81 600 bail
BY Nag istrate Simpson on charge Of
nistreating flfteen-year-o girl. The
charge, made by the Children's So
siety, involves two other girls, eleven
and twelve years old Alice Ruck. fif-
teen, Of c25 last Twenty-fifth Street
Is the direct complainant. The act en-
which she bases her charge is alleged
to have bcar committed on December
IS in an apartment in West Forty-sey-
enth Street.
In statement to newspaper men,
Rckayd denied the charge, saying he
did not know cf the existence OF such
an apartment, adding:
a don't thni. that anybodv who
knows me- Will believe this yarn for a
minute"
According to detectives of the East
lhlrty fifth Street police station.
Anna Hess. one Of two girls whom the
Vflldrsn's Society is foldinr as wit
nssses against Rickard, has been in
selved in similar case before.
Anna and another girl, they said,
ssused The arrest of Angeles Beliery,
d 2i3 East Twenty eighth Street, No
'ember 20. on charge similar to that
made against Rickard. Bclcry. the
effective sad, was discharged as the
result OF testimony given by physi-
clans who had examined him.
According TO Viccnt Pisarra, super
'ltendent of tho Children's Society,
who brought the charge, the alleged
mssreatnient of the Ruck girl was pre-
ceded by several similar incidents in
R'cAards Office. known as "The Tower"
u, Madison Square Garden, and also in
,1e apartment in West Forty-seventh
e'rsst, which ne asserts, was aban-
aoned en- October I for one in West
i~erty-seyenth Street.
p'sarra charged in addition that
'Ana hess, eleven. of 232 East Twenty
hTst Street. and Elvira Renze, twelve,
q sS' East Twenty sixth Street, were
:sSert a. the places of the various
@Neged assaults. and that they
Nefs m'streated by Richard. No com
PANT wss made or behalf of the two
olnger girls. no are being held as
ater,al witnesses. Pisarra explained
rat the oh'ldren's Society is willing to
plant
False, Declares Wife
=, nA"n an attempt was made to reach
'"cEard at his apartment at 50 Madi-
'oh Avenue early in the afternoon the
p!omocer'e wife said over the tele-
psoae thai newspaper men could say
is' both her husband and herself that
tAs Charge is absolutely false and
fa.tllcus.'
y do No. helicve word of it," she
ssccd. II is g fabrication from be-
ginning TO end"
ssa!emsrts denying the charge also
wse,e issued by Richards attorneys,
Tax D. Steuer and LYMAN Bushel.
10Th :n.is..aled that tho charge may
have aser the work cf Richards enc
E,e.
h.,hs>c's arrest Was decided upon at
= conference Friday afternoon, at
Eacca by Police Inspector John
:;.olshiia, p;sarra and Chief Assistant
district Attorney Ferdinand Pecora, at
Se !asssr'5 ofiico. after the three girls
saa been questioned. An attempt to
sssp:saerd Bickard Friday night was
sassesessful, but at 10 o'clock yester-
rcss morning the clerk OF West S,e-
WET was notified by the promoter ,
tCcrtrued nm nscs t,relve,