Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-19
BROTHERS VISIT
'fATT SUNDAY;
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District Attorney Makes
Inspection of Rooms
at St. Francis Hotel.
Witness Ordered Arrest
ed for Leaving With
out Obtaining Permit.

San Francisco, Sept. 1S-Several
women who have not appeared in con-
nection with charge of murder on file
against Roscoe G. ("Fatty") Ar
buckle. were questioned Sunday by
District Attorney Matthew Brady and
assistants who are handling the case.
Until Brady announces the results
Of the conferences with the women. it
will not be known if they will appear
as witnesses against Arbuckle. Their
names were not made public.
Arbuckle spent quiet Sunday in
the jail cell where he is held on a
charge of numbering Miss Virginia
Rappe, motion picture actress, who
died. according to accusers of Ar
buckle, after drinking party in his
hotel suite here and as q result of
mistreatment by her host.
! Examination Thursday.
Arbuckle will remain in his cell
until Thursday when his preliminary
examination begins on a murder COM
paint which was sworn to by Mrs.
Bambina Maud belmont, member of
the party in the actors rooms.
a. c. Arbuckle, of San Francisco.
| and W. II. Arbuckle, of Fresno. broth
ers of the film star, visited him in his
| cell in the hall of justice here late
Sunday. They talked for half an
hour
Mrs. Roscoe Arbuckle,. known pro-
fessionally as Minta Durfee. is ex-
pected to arrive in San Francisco to-
day tA1onday) from New York to as
sist in her husbands defense. Ac-
cording to word received here she
stayed in Chicago 10 hours last Fri
day looking up acquaintances of Miss
Rape.
The Arbuckles have been separated
for about four years, according to
friends.
Visits Rooms.
District Attorney Matthew Brady
and his aides visited the suite Of
rooms in the hotel st. Francis where
Arbuckle's party was held. The fur
niture, according to Brady, was ar
ranged exactly as it was found when
the suite was vacated.
Twin beds in the rooms which had
been remade, were ordered disarranged
by Brady. This was done by Mrs.
Bambino Maude Delmort, Miss Alice
members of the Arbuckle party. The
beds were put in the same condition,
the women said, as they were when
they entered in response to Miss
Rappe's cries
Brady said he had gone to the hotel
to get the lay of the land"
DR.. Arthur Bcardslee, house phys
icin at the hotel, who was called to
treat Miss Rappe at the party, tele-
graphed that he was on hunting trip
in Memo county, Calf, and had just
learned that Arbuckle had been ar
rested. He said he would start for San
Francisco Immediately.
Watch Witnesses.
Upon information from Los Angeles
that Lowell Sherman, film actor who
attended the Arbuckle party, had left
the city and started for the east, Dis
trict Attorney Brady telegraphed au-
thorities at Salt Lake City and many
other towns to intercept and return him
10 San Francisco. Brady announced
also that he had telegraphed the dis
.riet attorney at Los Angeles to locate
md place under surveillance Al Sem
aacher. Fred Fishback and Ira Fort
ouis, members of the Arbuckle party.
Brady said that he wished to have
Fishback and Fortlouis
to prevent their leaving the
of the California courts.