New-York tribune., 1922-01-26
Girl on Stand
Sticks to Story
Against Rickard
tContlnscd from pnos sno)

ments in West Forty-scventh Street.
Each time, she said, Rickard gave them
money. generally giving her 81 more
than ne gave Anna and always giving
somewhat smaller sum than on the
preceding occasion.
The last time they went TO the apart
ment, she said. Richard gave them each
IS. She said that she had hidden her
money under a corner Of the linoleum
In the kitchen of her grandm others
home. It was while she was telling
of the visits she said she had made to
the apartments in West Forty-seventh
Street, that a woman rushed from
seat in the rear of the room, pro-
claimed herself tho girls wotheF and
cried that her whole story was fabri-
cation.
Magistrate Simpson ordered the
woman to take her sent and keep stHl
unless she wished to- be elected. She
would have an opportunity to make
statements to that effect under oath
later, If she desired to, he said:
Alice said that December IS. the date
mentioned in the charge against Rick
through West Forty-scventh Street, and
looking up saw him In the window Of
the apartment in which they had
visited him. He beckoned to them to
come up, she said, and they went.
Mr.. Steucr started his cross -cxamina-
tion with the arrival of the two girls
at Bellevue Hospital two weeks ago,
when their thrilling story Of an attack
upon them by q man and a double at
tempt at suicide led to the investiRa-
tion which resulted in the present
charges.
"My grandmother, Mrs. King. sent
me out to buy some peppers" said the
girl. "She gave me 45 cents. ! went
pcrs and then came back by way of
entral Park, where met Anna Hess:
We got to sliding on the Ice and I
dropped the bag Of peppers and broke
them. was afraid to go home then
and Anna and l decided to make up a
story that we were hold up by an un-
known man and borrowed 20 cents from
him, and we each bought dime bottle
of iodine and drank it.
THAT was the story we told at Belle
vue Hospital and we said that we
drank the iodine after being kidnapped
by man who put US in big car, at
tackled us, then threw US out of the
car. and that we came to in q snow
bank"
And that was fiction-untrue 2"
asked Mr.. Steuer.
les, ALICE answered. Inen she ex |
planned that the police were summoned
by Bellevue physicians, the police
turned them over to the Children's So
ciety, the Children's Society took her |
to the Rickard apartment to verify her
description of it, and the charges
against Rickard followed. The police
separated Anna and herself, she said, |
and Anna had told them "lots Of |
things" She said that she herself had |
told DR.. Montague, Of the Children's
Society, the story of her alleged rela-
tionship with Rickard.
Mr.: Steuer asked the girl where she
got, inspiration for the story told at
Bellevue.
From the movies" replied Alice.
II saw woman in the movies take
iodine. saw another tear out her
clothes-the way wc tore them before
we went to Bellevue and said we were
attacked. We really tore them in a
Third Avenue Il station. was al
ways filled with Imagination of inter
esting and thrilling situations, and
liked to build up plots for myself"
The girl then said in reply to ques
ton that she had a photograph of
Tex" Rickard that she carried in her
sleeve for quite a time and that her
mother had taken it away from her.
Rickard sat quietly with his counsel
during the examination of the two Wit
nesses. He showed no special emotion
and walked out quietly at the end of
the proceedings. He refused all re-
quests for statement