Raymond Hitchcock (actor) two apparently playing firemen. Hitchcock also made several phonograph recordings of which many survive. In 1907, Hitchcock was charged with the sexual abuse of two adolescent girls together with New York magnate William A. Chanler. As Hitchcock's trial progressed, it was revealed that the charges of sexual abuse were fabricated as part of a blackmail scheme. Hitchcock was acquitted by a jury on June 11, 1908, after spending almost nine months in prison. In 1925, Hitchcock appeared in a test film made by Lee DeForest in DeForest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process, in which Hitchcock performed a sketch from his revue "Hitchy-Koo",
Peter Hitchcock reorganization of the judicial tribunals of the state, and still continued to discharge his duties on the bench. He was called the "Father of the constitution of 1851." One of the debates was over granting the power of the veto to the governor. As a good Whig, Judge Peter Hitchcock opposed it: The convention did not give the governor the veto in the new constitution. Peter Hitchcock was the uncle of Seabury Ford, the first Ohio governor from the Western Reserve. Peter Hitchcock died in Painesville, Ohio, while stopped at the home of his eldest son on his way home