The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-22
.G|RL. DESCRIBES ALLEGED ATTACK
 BY TEX RICHARD
Tells of Visiting Apartment of Sports Promoter and of Money Received at
 Various Times
By Associated Pres.

New York, March 21.-An undersiz-
 ed tausied haired school girl in short
 dresses, Sarah Schoenfeld. just over
 l5 years old, sat in a witness chair in
 supreme court for more than two
 hours today and told Justice Wasser-
 vogel and jury of alleged assaults
 upon her by George l.. tTex) Rick
 ard internationally known sports promoter.
 As she recited her story in a lisping voice the man who had arranged some
 of the greatest pugilistic encounters
 in history. sat with arms folded, star Ing at her. Only occasionally did he relax and then to whisper in his counsels ear or to make notes with a pencil.
 l The girl told how she had been in-
 troduced to Rickard by her chum. Nellie Gasko, last summer at the swimming pool in Madison Square
 Garden. He gave them both money,
 she said. and told them to come and
 see him at his office in the tower of
 the building. Upon their visit. she testified. Ricksrd gave them note
 and asked them to call at an apart ment in West Forty y-seyenth street.
 They called at the apartment later
 and there the alleged assault took
 place. He gave them each sf0, she
 said, and asked them to call again. other Visits Described
 Then followed a story of other yis- its. all but one when she was alone, 1 in company with the Gasko girl. These visits covered several months,
 She said Rickard also tried 10 assault the Gasko girl but that she repulsed
 him The amount of money ho gave them. she said. varied from time to time. ranging from s5 to $20.
 After each alleged assault. Sarah testified the promoter asked them to tell nothing of what had happened.
 once she asked Rickard to help get
 her brother. Samuel, out of jail in
 Milwaukee. where he had been srrest- ed for stealing. Rickard promised to help. she said. and later she brought her mother to see him.
 | A letter was Introduced in evidence. alleged to have been written to Mrs Schoenfeld by Rickard on January IS last in which he enclosed a letter to the governor of Wisconsin, asking that steps be taken to release Sam uel from prison. The letter asked
 Mrs. Schoenfeid to write directly to the governor and enclose the other letter.
 Sarah was on the stand when ad- journment was taken until tomorrow. IT. outlining the case to the Jury, Fer dinand Pecora, assistant district at torney. said the state would prove that when the Jews of Richards ar- rest in connection with alleged as- saults on other girls was printed, the 1 Schoenfeld and Gasko girls met him l by te1ephonic appointment and that lin an automobile ride for more than an hour through Central park. he urged them to tell the authorities
 nothing of what had happened. He
 told them, Mir. Pecora said, to say if necessary that another man did 1t"
 He warned that if they told, they would be sent away until they were l1S years old and that he would give them no more money. The girls prom lised that they would obey. Mir. Pecora 1 said
 After adjournment, Eickard was lied back over The Bridge of Signs Ito Tombs prison. where his cell mate lis Alfred E. Lindsay. alleged swindler
 of wealthy society women.