Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-28
TESTIMONY OF TEX RICHARD
WAS A GENERAL DENIAL.

New York. March 27.-lTsx Rickard
denied today before the supreme court
jury trying him ufl a charge Of having as
satlted fifteen year cid Sarah Schnenfeid
that be had ever misconducted hinself
with her, The stories told abput him by
Sarah and her twelve year old chum,
Nellie Gasko, the sports promoter con-
tfadicted almost ip their entirety.
During q long cross examination that Is
to be resumed tomorrow, Riekard also
swore he never had had improper reia-
tfons with women Of Alaska or Nevada
duringt he gold rnshes III those sections
1t neVer ha1pened he said, when
Assistant District Attorney Pecora asked
If he hadn't lived with a woman at Nome
and then abandoned her. He made the
same answer when asked II he had not
txied to Induce hfteen year old blonde
cigar girl to 90 to room with him at
1aawhides Nevada. fifteen years ago.
Didn't the girls u1otller threaten to
shoot your" Pecora inquired.
Tt never harpeped, said Rickard-
He also denied that a IA year old gin
In Ely, NeYaaa, had once been wronged by
him and thar after the girl was sent to a
hospital when about to become q moth
er, her own mothsr had committed sui
eide.
Il never heard Of any woman commit
ting aEacide over me- Riekard remarked.
The promoter testified that he and
Mrs. Rickard were married at Seattle IN
1902. He first went to Alaska IN S6. he
said, and had divided his time there for
several years between prospecting mining
and operating saloons and ganlbiing
houses IN the Klondike, at Dawson City
and Nome.
Mrs. Richard came to the defense Of
ing in their experiment. and visiting be-
SIDE her sick bed there during the hours
On the night Of last November IL, when
Sarah and Nellie said he was with them
in al apartment in 47th tsreet. It was
on that night that Ricksrd Is alleged to
have assaulted the Schoenfeld girl. Other
witnesses swore Rickard was at Madison
sauar Garden aftsz leaving his home that
night.
Hackard admitted having se,n Alice
Ruck, Anns Hess and Nellie Gasko. CONF
claimants against him in three sanding in
dictaneuas, around the Garden swimming
pool last summer He said he had talked
to and knew hnndreds Of the little girls
Who swan in ine TooE
He might have given them money to buy
lunches. he asserted, but denied ever hay
ing presented to Sarah the sums OF SIC
to Sz5 which they said the promoter gave
them on several occasions. Rickard said
he remembered Nellie because he had sls-
pected her Of stealing from the women S
dressing room at the Garden and had in
striucted a guard to watch her
He denied having taken Sarah ar
Nellie riding last~Janaary s. Two days
after his arrest on the Ruck girls com
plant, or that any Of the youngsters
ever had been In his car.
He recalled having seen the Schoen-
field girl four times. each occasion, he
said, in connection with her mothers ef-
forts to get Richards aid in trying te
have her son released from Wisconsin
jail
Walter Fields, the man who leased tns
two apartments in which Rickard ws'
alleged to have miscondEcted hinrse!l
with Sarah, formerly worked at the Gard
en- almost every day, but Richard sale
he did not know his present whereabouts
Since his arrest, 1Rickard admitted Fields
had not worked regularly.