Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-12

all there were five men and four girls
in ArbuCkle's apartments at the st.
Francis last Monday afternoon. and
that ArbuCklc showed the effects OF
drink and that the party became ex-
tremely rough. ending with Arbuckle s
pulling Miss Rappe into his own room
and locking the door.
Mrs. DelmOnt has said that she could
hear the girl scream and the sounds of
sCuffling and that for nearly an hour
she made vain attempts To get Arbuckle
TO unlock the door. When he finally
came out. says Mrs. belmont, Virginia
Rappe was unconscious.
Made TOO Much Noise
The latter portion of Mrs. belmont $
story has been corroborated by Alice
Blake. who already had told the police
that Mrs. belmont made frantic efforts
to induce Arbucklc to unlock the room
and LET Miss Rappc out.
when ArbuCkle finally opened the
door" Miss Blake says. II went in
with Mrs. belmont. and Miss Pryvon.
We heard Miss Rappe moaning I am
dying. She was lying on the bed al
most unconscious and evidently in cx-
tremc pain. And all that Arbuckle
said was: Get her out Of here and
back to her hotel-she makes too much
noise.
Miss Blake has told the police of the
efforts made by Mrs. belmont and her
self to revive Miss Rappe by means of
a cold bath. and of their attempt to
dress her, only to find that her clothing
had been torn so badly as to make it
useless. And then. she says, the hotel
office was notified and the physicians
were summoned.
To all of this Arbuckle thus far has
made utter denial. declaring that Nir-
ginia Rappe intoxicated after one or
two drinks, had voluntarily gone into
the other room of his suite. and in
deliriouS manner, had torn off her own
garments He denies that any violence
was used by him on the girl.
Exaggerated. Says Fatty"
THE accounts of the party last
Monday have been grossly exaggerated. "
Arbuckle said on his return to this city
after a fast motor drive from Los An
gples. "and portions of them have been
circulated with the sole idea of doing
me a great injustice.
Arbuckln had been cautioned by Frank
Dominguez. his Los Angeles attorney.
to "sny no word to any one, come
what may" The rotund star agreed to
obey the lawyers injunctions at the
start from Los Angeles. Consistently
throughout the day he resisted any and
all attempts to get him to talk.
Even wien at midnight he staggered,
rod in the face. forlorn of expression
and weak of knee, out of the office of
Captain MathcSon, shocked at the seri-
business Of the charge against him, Ar
buckle kept his word. Once he turned
his head as If TO speak TO Dominguez,
who followed close behind. But the
stern counsel, who in the inner Office
had refused to allow his client to utter
a word in his own defense. quickly
raised his finger to his lip in admoni-
tion. ArbuCkIe, in obedience, closed his
lips and followed his guard of detec-
tyes to the city prison.
When Arhuckle arrived in San Fran
cisco about O clock Saturday night and
was met at Market and Montgomery
streets by detectives. who escorted him
10 the Hall Of Justice. he was subdued,
but showed no indications of great dis
tress. He personally drove his custom
built. sportively decorated touring car
over the road from Los Angeles, and
when the detectives met him he was
standing on the curbing opposite the
Croker National Bank Coolly smoking
cigarette.
While n photographer had him in
charge Arbucklc made his only break
in silence of the entire evening.
As Arbuckle stood before this camera
some one made the trite suggestion,
Look pleasant, please.
Not on an occasion of this sort, - re-
sponded the actor in n low tone. Plans
were made for the immediate raising
of bail in case a charge of manslaugh- :
ter were to be preferred. Nothing
more serious than that was discussed
in the corridors of the Hall of Justice
And when 1t was announced that Ar
buckle would be charged with murder
and committed to jail without bonds
his friends literally wilted.
Miss Rappe was twenty five years
old and was born in Chicago. She
attracted attention in that city in 1913,
1t is said, by advice to young women
TO create original methods Of making
a living. She was then making $1,000
a year as a travelling art model, she
said, Miss Rappe came to San Fran
cisco in 1919 and for time designed
gowns and wore them as a model She
began acting motion pictures at Los
Angeles in 1917, and took leading parts
IN several
Arbuckle was born in Kansas thir-
~ -four years ago. When eight years
old he appeared as a pickaninny in a
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