Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-24
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Promoters Attorney Declares
Promoter Can pIsprovs
Young oih's chargss
RENTED PLACE FOR LIQUOR

New Y:ss; Match q. Opening .ts The
cr%ns1 rlens q s ssn Ssasss via o
saraS sshoepfsid, counsel for tSs sport S
promoter today told the jury that q
perfect alibi would b proved for No.
vember II, 1921, the date Of the
Max stsuer, chief defense counsel.
also set forth that the two apartments
on West Forty seventh street men.
toned In connection with the case had
been rented by Rickard while he was
arranging the Dempsey. willard fight
In Toledo to store bis liquor, because
he saw prohibition coming.
Rickard. Steuer said, never had been
In the suites in his life, and had gone
to the apartment houses themselves only
twice. to ascertain from the janitor
that his cellars were @. X.
Richards counsel denied the pro.
moter ever had gone motoring with
either Sarah or twelve .year.old Nellie
Gasko, corroborating witness for the
prosecution.
Steuer said his olient knew nothing Of
tho two girls except that Sarah once
had come to Madison Square Garden
with her mothen to enlist his aid In
obtaining the release Of her brother,
imprisoned In Milwaukee.
Outlining the defense, Steuer said the
prosecution would have to prove the Of
fense occurred on the night Of Novem.
Der ~, 1921. between z 80 o'clock and
10 O'Clock, according to the story told
by the girls.
Although Richard never kept diary,
Steuer added, he could always recall the
past by looking at the record Of events
that had taken place at the Garden, and
with a glance at these records to refresh
his memory, the promoter recalled that
November IL was no ordinary day In
his life.
Steuer said he would show that In
the morning Rickard went to the Gar.
den; that at 1 80 O'Clock he went to
the Polo Grounds to watch the Dart
mouth Pennsylvania football game, &C.
companied by his secretary and pub
licity manager, and there he had ex-
changed comments with a newspaper
sporting writer and "Big Bill" Ed.
wards, former Princeton gridiron star !;
that he had returned to the Garden to
prepare for a dance to take place there
that night; that he had returned home
for dinner with Mrs. Richard, as would
be proved by the testimony Of a young
woman who had been the Richards
Week.euu SAeSt That MTs. INAdru
had become Ill and physician sum-
moned that later he had taken his
guest and another woman to the dance
at the Gar den and then returned hime.
It was expected also that the charac.
ters Of Sarah Schoenfeld and Of her 50.
called corroboratory witness, Nellie
Gasko, thirteen, and Of the other girls,
Alice Ruck, fifteen. and Anna Hess,
eleven, would be attacked,
Nellie Gasko, the good little girl"
who had declared she never had been
intimate with Rickard. but that her
chum, Sarah Schoenfeld, had fire.
quently gone into an apartment with
him, yesterday admitted under cross
questioning that she was liar. a
forger Of checks and had robbed a
house. Also. she confessed. that while
in the custody Of the Children's Society
she had ''helped to fix up Sarah Schoen-
fields story" because at times "Sarah
didn't have a very good memory about
dates and I supplied the dates that were
missing"