New Britain herald., 1922-03-24
RICHARD IS TRYING
 ID PROVE AN ALIBI His Lawyer Coniden! He Will Be
 Successful in This EXPLAINS HIS WARNINGS
Admonition To .Janitor To "Kccp Quict' Had Reference To Li0uor Cached In Apartment According To Counsel For Defense.

New York, March 2f-Opening the defense of Tex Rickard, charged with criminally assaulting 15 year old sarah Schoenfeld, counsel for the sport promoter today told the jury that perfect alibl would be proved for November 12, 1921, the date of the alleged offense.
 Had Supply of Booze.
 Max Steuer. chief defense counsel also set forth that the two apartments on West filth street mentioned in con nection with the case had been rent ed by Rickard while he was arrang- ing the Dempsey Willard fight in Toledo to store his liquor in, because he saw prohibition coming on.
 Rckard, Steucr said. never had been in the suites in his life and had gone to the apartment houses them selves only twice to ascertain from the janitor that his cellars were o. k. Denies Girls Charges. Richards counsel denied that the promoter ever had gone motoring with either Sarah or 12 year old Nell | lie Gasko, corroborating witness for the prosecution. Stcuer said his eli ent knew nothing of the two girls ex- cept that Sarah once had come to | Madison Square Garden with her mother to enlist his aid in obtaining the release of her brother, imprison- ed in Milwaukee.
 Outlining the defense, Steuer said that the prosecution would have tc prove the offense occurred on the night of November 12, 1921, between 7:30 o'clock and 10 o'clock. accord ing to the story told by the girls. Al though Rickard never kept diar, Steuer added, he could always rccal the past by looking at the record o events that had taken place at thu Garden and with glance at these records to refresh his memory, tho promoter recalled that November l. was no ordinary day in his life. l Claims An Alibi.
 Steuer said he would show: Tha in the morning Rickard went to tn, Garden; that at 1;5o o'clock he wen to the Polo Grouu Is to watch tn, Dartmouth and Iennsylvar foothal : game; that he was accompanied b | , and that there he had exchanget comments with a newspaper sporting writer and Big Bill' Edwards, for mcr Princeton gridiron star.
 That he had returned to the Gar den to prepare for a dance to talk place there that night;
 That he had returned home fo dinner with Mrs. Rickard as woul' be proved by the testimony of ; young woman who had been thu I Richards week end guest;
 That Mrs. Rickard had been takcl i'll and a physician summoned. Tha later he had taken his guest and an other woman to the dance at th' Garden and that he had rcturne' home.
 Explains Warning
 Stcuer then advanced an eNplana ton of the testimony by Herma, Berch, janitor at the fifth stree ! apartment houses who asserted tha he had been told by Rickard, afte the latter's arrest to keep quiet. mi exhortation, according to Steuer con cerned the liquor cached at th' apartments which were occupied b, Walter Fields. The janitor, the law yer said, had been summoned b. , Rickard solely for questioning con cerning the safety of the liquor afte a visit paid by detectives working oi the assault case. The janitor assure' him it had been untouched and then Steuer said, Rickard added his eau ton.