Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-09-30
PHYSICIAN Tells
OF Rape INJURY
Says Rupture Was His First Dr.,
agnOsis of Case.
NO APPEARANCE OF DEBAUCH
Hotel ST. Francis Doctor Prescribes
Film Girls Agony After Party
"FattyD Acts as Own Attorney
in Another Court.

San Francisco, Sept. 27.-Dr. Arthur
Beardslee, testifying in the policel
court examination of Roscoe G. (Fatty) /
Arbuckle, said he found Miss Virginia)
Rappe, whose death Arbnckle is
charged with having caused, in great
pain when he was called into the case
In the absence of his attorneys, Ar
buckle acted for himself in the Superb
OF court in agreeing with the diStrictl
attorney that the mansIaughter charges
pending against him should be contin-i
ued until October 3.
Gave Drug to Quiet Pain.
Miss Rappe's writhing in intense
pain overshadowed evidences of alcO-
holism, Doctor Beardslee testified, and
it was necessary to quiet her by thel
use of drug.
This was the evening of Septemberl
5, a few hours after the Hotel st.
Francis party, out of which the charges
against Arbuckle arose, according to
the physician, and early the next morn
ing he discovered evidence to support
an earlier conclusion that Miss Rappel
had suffered an internal injury.
From the beginning he realized It'll
was a surgical case, and advised re-.
moval to a hospital.
"There was no other conclusion to
draw from the evidence than that the
bladder was ruptured," the Witness
said
In answer to hypothetical question:
regarding the cause of torn bladder,
Doctor Beardslee replied that he wouldI
consider external force such as q fall
or blow the origin.
Violent and continued vomiting
might cause such a rupture, the witt
ness replied to question from Arr
buckles counsel.
A black and blue spot on one arm
was the only external sign of injury,
according to Doctor Beardslee.
Don't call me your friend snapped
the witness at Frank Dominguez, Ar
buckles chief counsel, after long Sc
ries of tits between them during ques
tioning by the defense attorney
Insists Rupture Cause of Pain.
Although the defense attempted to-
draw from Doctor Beardsee an admis-
sion that other internal causes might
have been responsible for his PATIENTS
pain, the physician said his composite
knowledge of the case pointed to a
bladder rupture.
The morning after the party the case
was turned over to DR.. M. e. Rumwel,
according to Doctor Beardslee who
said he did not tell his conclusions
about the patients condition to Doctor
Rumwell, because the latter did not
ask him.
Doctor Beardslee said he was merely
following professional custom and
that he would have passed on his in
formation had it been requested.
did it appear Miss Rappe had been
on debauch?" questioned Dominguez.
Doctor Beardslee replied that it did
not appear so, and in any event the in
tense pain overshadowed evidences Of
alcoholism.
This was a classical picture of a.
ruptured bladder" Doctor Beardslee
said, when the defense counsel revert
ed to questions about other possible
internal injuries.
The witness denied that he had told
the sheriff when he was notified on his
hunting trip that his testimony was
wanted, that too much high lfe'' was
the trouble with Miss Rape.
Semnacher Is Recalled.
AL Semnacher, state witness, was
recalled to the stand I'M the FATTY"
Arbuckle murder hearing at whichl
time Defense Attorney Frank Domin4
CUES precipitated a sensation.
Dominique explaining to Judge Syl-
vain Lazarus the purpose of his,
line of ross-examination, declared:
MY intention is to prove that Sem;
nachers action in taking the clothes.
of Miss Virginia Rappe out of the ST.
Francis hotel and to his home in Hol-'
lywood, was part of a conspiracy on;
the part of Semnacher, Earl Lynn andl
Mrs. B. NJ belmont, the object of
which was to extort money from Mr.
Roscoe Arbuckle.
1T is my duty to prove the exist
ence and to establish the facts of this,
conspiracy, and l am prepared to,
do it,"
Dominguez succeeded in elicitine.
nothing from Semnacher as to the al,
legged extortion scheme, save a gen.
eral denial. His original testimony re-
manned unchanged by the examina.
ton.