Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-16
Actor Will Appear in
Police Court on First
Charge of Murder.
Miss Rappe's Body to
Be Taken to Los An
geles for Interinent.

San Francisco, Sept. 15.-Distric
Attorney Brady announced Thursda
night that no decision had yet bee
reached whether to proceed agains
Roscoe c. (''Fatty"l Arbuckle in polio
court on the murder charge preferre
against him, or to seek dismissal Of thi
IN view of the grand jury indictmen
against Arbuckle for manslaughter.
The decision will be made Frida
morning. Brady said. His statemen
was made, after conference with hi
deputies and with Chief of Polic
OBrien and Captain of Detective
| Matheson.
! A statement that the federal authori
| ties are to Investigate the liquor phas,
of the murder case of Roscoe c
/ C"Fatty') Arbuckie and expect sucl
! investigation to take them into the mo
| tion picture colony of Los Angeles.
was made BY Robert NJ. Mccormack, as
/ sistant United States attorney general
Investigating prohibition violations.
| Cash Bond Furnished.
! The $1,000 cash bail for Arbuckle was
/ deposited in the form of certified
| check with the bond and warrant CLERK
| by Milton Cohen, of counsel for Ar.
buckle. The actor was served with the
! manslaughter warrant and formally
booked. Arbuckle's freedom still awaits
action on the murder charges.
The body at Miss Virginia Rappe
is not to be removed from San Fran
cisco to Los Angeles Thursday night,
contrary to an announcement made by
District Attorney Brady, but will be
taken to the southern city Friday, the
undertaking establishment in charge
here announced.
The manager Of the establishment
was asked in telegram from Henry
Lehrman, Miss Rappe's fiance in New
York, to whisper in the dead girls ear,
Henry loves you"
''She will hear you,' the telegram
continued
The exact time for the departure of
Miss Rappe's body has not been set,
but it was expected to be forwarded
Friday morning.
Mrs. w. B. Hamilton, chairman of
the special committee appointed by the
woman's vigilance committee to CO.
operate with Attorney Brady in the
investigation of teh Arbuckle case. and
Mrs. Robert NJ. Dean, prominent
member of the special committee, wait
ed on Brady and pledged him the full
support of the committee
Club Women Help.
The women announced that the Wig
lance committee. which is made up Of
a number of San Francisco club women,
will have members of the special com
mittee at every public hearing of the
Arbuckle case, will provide every pos
sible protection to the women witness
every way possible.
The developments in the case today
we're:
Robert II. Mccormick, assistant
y. s. attorney general in charge
Of liquor prohibition prosecutions. an
nounced that he would conduct sweep
ing investigation of the liquor phases of
he Arbuckle case, ''even if such investi-
gaton reaches into the motion picture
colony at Los Angeles"
Arbuckle is accused of having liquor
at the party in which he is charged
with having inflicted fatal injuries on
Miss Rappe.
The manslaughter indictment against
Arbuckl0 which was voted by the coun-
y grand jury early Wednesday, was
.eturned in the court of the presiding
judge, and the case assigned
% the court of Judge Harold Lauder
)ack.
Arbuckle's first appearance in
Judge Lauderback's court was set for
Saturday morning, when he will be |
arraigned, and may plead on the !
charge il he does not waive his right |
to a continuance
Brady and police officials conferred !!
to determine which one of the two
murder and the two manslaughter
charges against Arbuckle they will try. !
A certified check for 5000 cover
ng Arbuckle's cash bail was deposited |
with the bond and warrant clerk but
t was announced that he could not |
,e admitted to bail until the murder
charges had been disposed Of.
Arbuckle's second appearance In
,ourt since his arrest Saturday night.
s scheduled for Friday. He is to ap-
pear before Police Judge Lazarus for
! further hearing on the charge pre-
erred by Mrs. Bamhbina Maude Del
mont, one Of those present at Ar
,uckle's party.
Officials Of Judge Lauderback's
weeks before Arbuckle Is brought to
rial.
For Speedy Trial.
Brady declared that Arbucklc would
,e given as speedy trial as pos
nbie and the trial would begin as soon
Is 1t could be arranged.
1T will be pressed vigorously,
whichever charge we try him on, mur-
Fridays appearance before Police
Judge Sylvan Lazarus 10 to complete
he arraignment begun Monday on the
murder charge preferred by Mrs. BAN
ina Maude belmont. 4 member Of tie
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