Arizona republican., 1921-09-12
MURDER CHARGE
 FOLLOWS BOOZE
 ORGY IN FRISCO
MOVIE COMEDIAN IS HELD WITHOUT BAIL PENDING GRAND JURY'S IN- VESTIGATION OF DEATH OF MISS VIRGINIA RAPPE
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IRepubIican A. p. Leased Wire1 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 11-Ros-,I COG tFatty) Arbuckle, screen actor vii be formally charged in police 1 court tomorrow with the murder of Miss Virginia Rappe, motion picture | actress, Captain of Detectives Dun- | can Mathewson said today.
 Arbuckle was booked on the mur- der charge by the police last mid night, and has since been held in jail. He refused to make any statement or comment. Under the California penal code, no bail is allowed to a person charged with murder, and Captain Mathew son expressed the opinion the court the county grand jury. If District Attorney Mathew Brady returns to the city in time, the case is expected to be presented to the grand jury to- morrow night, according to Mathew son. An inquest will be held Thurs day.
 Miss Rappe, who died Friday, was removed from Arbuckle's rooms in a hotel last Monday in a critical con- dition after a party at which five men and four women were present. Autopsy surgeons said death was due to peritonitis, superinduced by an in ternal injury
 Assistant District Attorney Milton U'Ren said that the charge of mur- der was based on a section of the penal code directing that such charge be made in cases where death result ed from a felony-in this instance, actual or attempted assault.
 Evidence of the various witness es," U'Sen said, clearly indicated that an assault had been committed. and was the superinducing cause of the injury that resulted in the girls death"
 A post mortem examination on Fri day night by Dr. William Ophuls, who attended Miss Rappe. disclosed, he said, that her death resulted from peritonitis which was caused by rupture of an internal organ. He said there were no evidence of an as- sault and no signs that the young woman had been attacked. Dr. Shelby Strange, autopsy surgeon, said an in ternal organ had been ruptured, caus- ing peritonitis and death. He sent the stomach to the city chemist for analysis Mrs. Jane Walsh. chief deputy coroner and Mrs. Jean Jame- son. nurse who attended Miss Rappe, said there were bruises on the Wom- ans arms and legs.
 Miss Alice Blake and Mrs. B. M Delmont, told the police that after some liquor had been drunk at the party. Arbuckle and Miss Rappe went to an adjoining room, the door of which was thereupon locked Soon, thev said. they heard Miss Rappe screaming and after they pounded on the door. Arbuckle admitted them Miss Rappe, they said, was lying on the bed only partially conscious and her clothing had been torn. They said she moaned:
 
 Miss Rappe was put into a cold bath by members of the party, and that failing to revive her. the hotel physician was summoned. AfterWard she was removed to hospital where she died Friday. Arbuckle went to Los Angeles Tuesday.
 Accompanied by an attorney, Ar buckle came here by automoplle MAsI M night and went at once to police headouarters. He was questioned by detective for several hours. but on advice of his attorney he refused to answer questions At midnight, Cantain Mathewson ordered him booked for murder. Arbuckle lost hls usual jaunty manner. and as he posed for newspaper photographers Who asked him to smile, he saio;
 srSot on an occasion of this sort"
 All of today Arbuckle persisted Tn refusing to answer question of the nolice and his attorneys. under wnose instructions he was acting, decllneo to discuss the case.
 Miss Rappe was 25 years old anG was born in Chicago. She attracteo attention in that city in 1915, It lS said by advice to young women tc create original methods of making 3 living. She was then making s4,oo' a wear as a travelling art model, she said. Miss Rappe came to san Fran, cisco in 1915 and for time designed gowns and wore them as modei She began acting in motion pictures at Los Angeles in 1917.
 Arbuckle was born in Kansas o' years ago. When eight years old ht anneared as a pickanniny in stoct company at Santa Ana, Calf, for o' cents a night Ten years later he re ceived S17.50 a week for singing pop nTar songs in San Jose. Callf., Vau 1eviIIe house. That was his tfst reg ,,Iar theatrical engagement Alter ,rard he sang in a Portland, ore bnrlesoue theater, and later was dancer in Oakland, California AT buckles first picture work was a extra man for companies produclIl' slan stick comedies. It paid him day. ,,,o,,,
 since then he has produced man Jim plays as head of his own com