The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-28
ARBUCKLE
DENIES HURT
RAPPE GIRL
Did Not Hear Her Say,
He Hurt Me-, or Any
thing Like It.

San Francisco, Cal. Nov. 2S.-
! (Associated Press. Roscoe C.
/ l''Fatty.D Arbuckle took the stand
today in the manslaughter case
against him.
! Arbuckle said he came TO San
Francisco from Los Angeles on
! Sept and stopped at the Hotel
/ St Francis. He named the guests
at the party in which he is alleged
/ TO have fatally injured Miss Nir-
ginia Rappe, saying that he lad
: invited no one to the party but
MIS- May Taube.
ArbuCkle said that he had an en-
! gagement to go out with Mrs. Taube
d few minutes after Miss Rappe Is
alleged to have been injured by
| him.
Found Her on Floor.
4 found Miss Rappe in my
room. She was on the bathroom
floor very sick / assisted her.
''She was holding her abdomen
and | gave her some water"
4 helped her into the bed AT
buckle continued. She said that
she had dizzy spells often Then
went back TO the bathroom. When
1 returned Miss Rape was on the
floor rolling and moaning. l plac-
ed her on the bed again
While l assisted her Miss Pre-
vost and others entered the room.
| went into another room and when
/ came back Miss Rappe was on
the bed tearing her clothing"
! Identities Rathrobe.
Ill 4 p 4 aa In
/ bathrobe and underclothing. The
identified it.
Mrs. belmont, d guest of the
party. told me to leave Miss
Rappe." Arbuckle testified. y told
! Mrs. belmont to shut up or
would throw her out of the win
dow"
Arbuckle told Of taking Miss
Rappe from the room and into an
other room, with the assistance OF
Harry Boyle, assistant manager OF
/ the hotel
! The door leading from his room
/ to the corridor and q window oil
! the room were open, he said.
/ I did not hear Miss Rdppe say,
He hurt me-. or say anything that
could be so understood, he tesu-
fed.
He Cen!ed having forced Miss
3 Rappe against q door or having
told Alfred Semnacher, a guest ct
the party, that he applied ice u
( Miss Rappe's body.
! Didn't Ask for hey.
+ He denied testimony by Jesse J.
Norgard. janitor of the Culver city
(CaIl motion picture studio, that
he offered Norgard a sum of money
for the key to Miss RaBpe's room
His direct examination was fin
ished at 1880 a II.
Arbuckle's testimony followed ii
futile attempt by the defense to-
have the testimony of IgnatiU5 II.
McCaTty. finger print student, ad-
.citted. His testimony was desired
to offset the testimony by +. o.
Heinrichs. finger print expert. r.
garding finger prints on the doors
. of Arbuckle's rooms in the Hotel
St Francis
Others Not Invited.
/ Arbuckle said he did not know
! Mrs. belmont previous to Sept. 8
/. the date OF the party in which Miss
Rappe is alleged to have sustained
her injury
During the party Misss Rapp.
: teIephoned to a Mrs. Spreckels, hs
= said. This is believed to be Mrs
? Sidi Spreckels, widow of John d
: Spreckels, Jr.
' ArbuckIe never saw Alice Blake
? d guest Of the party, in his life be
2 fore the affair, he said. Miss Ze.
/ Provost, another guest, also was
2 stranger to him, h said
Il had no idea that Miss Rappe
5 Mrs. belmont, Miss Blake or Mis-
Provost were coming to the part
until they actually arrived" h
said
Plenty of Liquor.
There were bottles Of whisky
gin, water and orange juice on
table in the room where the guest
were, he said Fred Fischbach, hi
roommate, supplied the liquor. b.
said.
Arbuckle testified in q loud, cIea
voice and seemed at ease in ever
way He denied knowledge of III,
source of the liquor. other than
was procured by Fischbach II,
was eating breakfast when tht
guests arrived, he said.
The witness said he drank some