Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-15
Arbuckle Charge
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the case against Roscoe Fatty Ar.
buckle 'most vigorously" Brady
telegram. in answer to one from Mayor
Hodgson urging him to Eight this case
to a fnish," follows:
Your telegram received. Assure you
and good people of st. Paul that, in spite
OF Arbuckle's money and influence, the
case will be prosecuted most vigorously
Depend upon me to do my full duty as
District Attorney to thwart any at
tempt to defeat justice"
Dry Officials Act
Arbuckle will be prosecuted as 8
violator of the VOlstead Prohibition En-
forcement Act il evidence now being
gathered shows that he transported at
much as zone drop of intoxicating
liquor from Los Angeles to San Fran :
cisco for his party on Labor Day,
robert II. Mccormack. special assistant
10 the United States Attorney General,
announced here today. Mccormack an =
nnounced that he had sent Prohibition
Director T.. Forrest Mitchell to Los
Angeles to investigate.
Federal authorities are conducting an
investigation into the source of the
liquor suppl Y alleged to have been used
st Arbuckle's suite. Two empty whisky
bottles are alleged by authorities to have
Geen recovered from a waste basket in
the Arbuckle rooms.
Inc verdict of the Coroner's jury in
part was as follows:
we tnd that said Virginia Rappe
came to her death from peritonitis
caused by rupture of the bladder
eaia rupture was caused by the appli-
vation or some force which, from the
evidence submitted. we believe was ap-
pned by one Roscoe Arbuckle. and the
Undersigned jurors therefore charge the
sad Roscoe Arbuckle with the crime
oil manslaughter.
n,Me, the jury, recommend that the
district Attorney of the city and
county of San Francisco, in coniunc-
non non with the Grand Jury. the Chief of
rolice and the Federal prohibition off
|ais, take steps to prevent recur-
Iyhce OF affairs similar to the one in
Which this young woman lost her life.
80 That San Francisco shall not be
MADE the rendezvous of the debauchee
and gangster."
hhat the findings of the Coroner S
Jury were -phrased in much more direct
"nu iorceful language than had been
'Npected by Arbuckle's array of coun-
IpsI was plainly manifest. Only Charles
brennan, of the defense's legal staff,
ss way present when the verdict was read
tSaa Sa ne made a hasty copy, with which
ne rushed off TO present to Frank
torneys. VI 'ne "''o' "'
Comedian Shows Strain
hrouckle personally showed signs Of
neaVy slump in spirits. During the
thons period of waiting he had been
"aUS Uaoyed up by his attorneys. The COM
saraslVe ss unimportance of the custom
formal verdict Of a Coroner's inry
wSs. impressed upon his mind. Yet
rooSn ""sn the jurymen filed into the inquest
Will Oi ne leaned forward nervously. and
ni nnn''e the document was being read bv
s, Ds. Leland, the Coroner, and his mama
Miss Ss announced y as causing the death OF
nsrSop nappe the comedians lips twitched
,ssnnvously and his full face took on n
'Wvw, W, siekening hue.
Win the words "debaucbee md
bSsssser still ringing in his ears Ar.
,1tv was led back to his cell In the
* prison @ BY his guard Of detectives.
s.,s ~ Juror submitted a minority verdict
'ns forth that from the evidence he