Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
Open PRELIMINARY
] ARbUCKLE HEARING
Miss Rappe's Manager Testifies
FATTY" Admitted Attack
on Girl
EXCLUDE MEN FROM COURT
Ry the Associated Press

liminary hearing Of Roscoe crafty
Arbuckle on charge of murder, il
connection with the death Of Miss Nir'
ginia Rappe. before Police Judge
Sylvain Lazarus. occupied the attention
of all connected with the case today
Men were excluded from the bearing
under an order issued last night. the
authorities ruling that as Judge
Lazarus court is n women courtroom
no men except witnesses, court officials
and newspaper reporters should be ad-
mitted.
The prosecution will endeavor 10
prove at the hearing. District Attorney
Matthew Brady has announced. the con-
tention that Arbuckle attacked Miss
Rappe in his suite Of rooms In the Hotel
&c. Francis. September . and caused
injuries which resulted in her death
four days later. The complaint charging
murder and under which Arbuckle has
been held in iail without bail. was
sworn to by Mrs. =. W. DplmOnt.
friend of Miss Rappe and one Of those
who attended the film comedians party,
To Last Three Days
Brady said he believed the prelmi
nary hearing would occupy at least
three days. The prosecution will take
q little over a day to put in its testi-
mony, and | expect the defense to take
about as long" he said.
The witnesses subpoenaed for today's
hearing are as follows:
DR.. Shelby Strange, acting autopsy
surgeon, who performed the autopsy on
the body Of Miss Rape.
DR.. William Ophuis. who performed
an autopsy in company with DR.. Will
liam Rumwell, Miss Rsppe's physi.
clan.
Mrs. b. NJ. belmont. complaining
witness against the comedian anu
friend Of the dead girl.
Miss Alice Blake. one of those who
attended the Arbuckle party.
Judge to Fix Crime
Miss Zeh Provost. former moving
picture actress and one of those who
attended the party as ArbuCkleS guest.
Miss Grace HHlstOn. nurse who at
tended Miss Rappe mp to the time of
her death.
The preliminary hearing will be held
on a charge of murder. but it is within
the discretion Of Judge Lazarus TO fix
the degree of crime he believes Ar
buckle to be guilty Of under the evi-
dence.
Arrangements were made TO open the
hearing at p. VI.
Expense money was sent TO Al Sem
nacher for his appearance here follow
Ing his long distance telephone plea
from Los Angeles that he did not have
enough money 70 make the trip. Sem
nacher is a motion picture producer and
was Miss Rappe's manager. The train
fare from Los angeles is s22 and the
boat fare is abC,t SIS.
Los Angeles. Sept. GA sworn
statement that Roscoe C"Fatty'0 Ar
buckle admitted to him on the morning
sfter the alleged attack on Virginia
Rappe. who died following attendance
at Arbuekie's San Francisco booze
party. that he had inflicted an injury
that might have caused her illness, was
made before the County Grand Jury
here late Yesterday by Al Semnacher,
Miss Rappe's manager
Only Arbuckle had the key to the
cellar Of his residence here. according
10 Miss Katherine Fitzgerald. house
Keeper for Arbuckle. in testimony given |
70 Ralph Camarllo, Assistant District
Attorney.
Miss Fitzgerald said. according to /
Camarlllo. that she understood Ar I
with liquors. that he alone entered IT. |
that she did not know whether he had !
taken any with him when he started |
for San Francisco on the trip which |
resulted in his arrest for the alleged |
murder of Miss Virginia Rappe, film |
actress, and that while she arranged |
for the payment of other household ex-
penses, she never had seen a bill for |
liquor among them. |
Camarillo stated Miss Fitzgeralds
statements checked with evidence al |
ready in the possession OF Federal Of
hcials who were investigating the !
source Of the liquor drunk at the Ar
buckle party in San Francisco.
All First National film exchanges
were ordered today TO withdraw all films
from exhibition In which appeared Vir-
ginia Rappc, the actress for whose
death Roscoe ("Fatty''D Arbuckle is
held at San Francisco on charge Of
murder, II was announced here Thir.
ty-two hundred exhibitors are renre.
sented in the action.
Testimony said to have been sIver
yesterday by Al Scmnachpr before rho
Los Ange es County Grand Jury in 70.
lation to- the ArbuCkle case lis in direct
contradiction Of his testimony before the
Ban Francisco Grand .Iury." District
Attorney Brady said lie declared he
would have Semnacher here TODAY
for further questioning.
Brady said that Scmnncher testified
before the Grand Jury here that Ar
buckle made no admissions to him
whatever concerning his alleged rela-
tions with Miss Rappe, which is in con.
tradiction to his purported Los An.
geles testimony that ArbuckIe did make
those admissions