Bisbee daily review., 1922-01-22
TEX RICHARD |S HELD ON CHARGE
 LODGED BY GIRL
Fight Promoter Says Enemies Responsible For Accusation
 of Criminal Assault

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-TeX R.ckard. promoter of sporting events, was charged in magistrates court today with criminal assault on 15-year-old Alick Ruck, public school pupil, and daughter of an East Side widow.
 Through counsel, Rickard, who sur rendered on learning bench warrant had been issued, denied the charges, which were made by the Children's Society on complaint of the Ruck girl. Two of her companions, Elvira Ren- zie, 12, and Anna Hess, II, were held as witnesses, the society quoting the girls as saying Rickard met them last fall at his public swimming pool in Madison Square Garden, gave them money, took them to his office, and then on December IS, last, assaulted the Ruck girl in an apartment
 Rickard Blames Enemies
 The promoter is under $1,OOO bond tor examination Wednesday. His at torney said, in a statement, that Rickard was the most surprised man in the world;" that he knew nothing about sthe case The statement, de- claring the situation mystifying, as serted Rickard undoubtedly had number, of bitter enemies as he now was engaged in considerable litiga- tion.
 The three girls appeared in courS clad in cheap dresses, plain coats and cotton stockings. Their parents also were present.
 Seen later, the parents professed tC have known nothing of the story un- til called to court. Complaining that their daughters were being held b. the Children's society, they said tha- the girls went to public school, and were home early at ninght
 Three Girls Detained
 All said they had never heard ci Rickard.
 The Hess girls mother said she was summoned to police station last Sat Urday night where she was told hel daughter and the Ruck girl had been given to the Children's Society after they had gone to the Bellevue hos. pital and falsely reported havine taken iodine. Since then lne socIe;5 has detained all three.
 Vincent Pissara, superintendent cf the society, who filed the charges against the promoter of the Dempsey Carpentier bout, said that after the children's court held the girls on a blanket charge of incorrigibility last week, the society physician examinea them and found that the Ruck girl alone showed indications of assault. Girls Tell Their Story q.
 Subsequently, he alleged, the gir:s told this story:
 Rickard had talked to them last fal while they were in their swimming suits at Madison Square Garden, ana then gave each dollar -.a-er, they | again went to the pool and he gave them each another dollar. The third time he asked if they would nave a drink of wine, but they -ec.invu Well, then, come up and see my office,' he was alleged to have salu. | According to Pissara's account, the girls went to the office in the tower of Madison Square Garden, t-.s same tower in which was located the s. lord White studio that figured in the Thaw case, where they asserted Rick ard improperly conducted himself. On the night of December IS, he was accused of having taken Alice i Ruck and Anna Hess to the apartment said to have been leased by another man, where, it was charged, he, as- saulted the Ruck girl and impaired the morals of her chum.