Chariton courier., 1921-09-16
FATTY ARBUCKLE Elm BAD.

lice court tomorrow with the murder
of Miss Virginia Rappe, motion pic
ture actress, Captain of Detectives
Duncan Matthewson 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 state
ment or comment.
Under the California penal code no
bail is allowable to a person charg-
ed with murder. If District Attor-
ney Matthew Brady returns to the
city in time the case is expected to
be presented to'the grand jury tomor-
row night, according to Matthewsop.
An inquest will be held Thursday.
Due TO Peritonitis
Miss Rappe, who died Friday, was
removed from Arbuckle's rooms in a
hotel last Monday in a critical con-
dition, after party at which five
men and four women were present.
Following an autopsy, surgeons said
death was due to peritohitis, superin-
duced by internal injury.
Assistant District Attorney Milton
O'Ren said that the charge of mur-
der was based on section of the
penal code directing that such
charge be made in case where death
resulted from actual or attempted as
sault.
Accompanied by his attorney, Ar
buckle came here by auto last night
from Los Angeles and went at once to
Police Headquarters. He was ques-
toned by detectives for several hours,
but on advice of his attorney, refused
to answer questions. At midnight
Capt. Matthewson ordered him book
ed for murder. Arbuckle lost his
usual ,jaunty manner and as he posed
for newspaper photographers who
asked him to smile, he said:
1Not on an occasion of this sort."
Refuses to. Talk
All Of today Arbuckle persisted in
refusing TO answer questiens Of the
police, and his attorneys, under whose
instructions be is acting, declined to-
discuss the case. Miss Rappe was
% years old and was born in Chica-
go. She attracted attention in that
city in 1918, it is said, by giving adj
vice to young women to create origi-
nal methods of making living. She
was then making $4,000 year as a
travelling art model, she said. Miss
Rappe came to San Francisco in 1916
and for a time designed gowns and
wore them as model. She began
acting in motion pictures at Los An
geles in 1917, and took leading parts
in several.
Arbuckle was born in Kansas "a
years ago. When 8 years old he
appeared as a pickanniny in a stock
company at Santa Ana, Cal. Ten
years later he sang popular songs in a
San Jose (Cal9 vaudeville house.
Afterwards he sang in a Portland
(Ore.) burlesque theatre and later
was a dancer in Oakland, Cal.
Arbuckle's first motion picture
work was an extra man in .compan-
les producing slap-stick comedies.
Since then he has produced many film
plays as head Of his own company.
Police Continue Inquiry
Police authorities today continued
their investigation into the circum-
stances surrounding the death of Miss
Rappe. All prosecuting witnesses,
many of whom attended the party in
Arbuckle's suite at a local hotel Mon
day, were under guard of police de-
tectives tonight, the police said.
In statement tonight Captain of
Police Detectives Duncan Matthewson
declared. that damaging evidence had
been secured against Arbuckle. "We
will attempt to convict Arbuckle Of
murder" Mathewson said. wit
nesses whom we have examined to-
day have given us information. thai,
in my mind, viii leave no doubt as
to his direct responsibility for Miss
Rappe's death. We will not make
these statements public now"
District Attorney Matthew Brady
of San francisco County, who will
have charge Of the prosecution Of Ar
buckle, in a statement tonight sail
that evidence in his possession Shows
conclusively either that an assault or
al attempted assault was perpetra.- /
ed i
Section 1870 Of the California pen
al code provides that the taking Of
human life by any person in the COM
mission Of an assault or in an at
tempted assault is murder IN the first
degree Brady's statement continued.
slliss Rappe died as q direct result
Of internal injuries. The evidence
disclosed beyond question that this
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