Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-30
SAYS MISS Rape
DIED OF INJURY
Hotel Physician Declares Rup-
ture Was His First dag
nosis of Case.
ELAGKMAIL PLOT IS CHARGED
doctor BeardsIee Describes Gir's Az
ony After the ArbuckIe Party
FATTY" Acts as own Attorney
in Superior Court.

San Francisco, Sept. 28.-Dr. Arthur
BeardsIee, testifying in the police
court examination of Roscoe G. (Fatty)
Arbuckle, said he found Miss Virginia
Rappe, whose death Arbuckle 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
or court in agreeing with the district
attorney that the mansIaughter charge
pending against him should be contin-
ued until October 8.
Miss Rappe's writing in intense
pain overshadowed evidences Of alco-
holism, Doctor Beardslee testified, and
it was necessary to quiet her by the
use of a drug.
This was the evening of September
;, a few hours after the Hotel st.
Francis party, out of which the charge
against Arbuckle arose, according to
the physician, and early the next morn
ing he discovered evidence to support
an earlier conclusion that Miss Rape
had suffered an internal injury.
From the beginning he realized 1t
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 would
consider external force, such as fall
or blow the origin.
Violent and continued vomiting
might cause such rupture, the wit
ness replied to question from Ar
buckles counsel.
black and blue spot on one arm
was the only external sign of injury,
according to Doctor Beardsley.
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.
Although the defense attempted to
draw from Doctor Beardslee 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 60 "a
bladder rupture. 81
The morning after the party the case
was turned over to DR.. NJ. E. Rumwell,
according to Doctor Beardslee, who
said he did not tell his. eogclusions
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.
ibid it appear Miss Rappe had been.
on a debauch? 2" questioned Dominguez.
Doctor Beardslee replied that it did
not appear so, and in any event the in
tense pain overshadowed evidence 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, chat too much high life" was
the trouble with Miss Rape.
Al Semnacher, state witness, was
5 recalled to the stand in the FATTY"
Arbuckle murder hearing, at which
time Defense Attorney Frank Domin-
guez precipitated a sensation.
Dominguez, explaining to Judge Syl-
vain Lazarus the purpose of his
line of ross-examination, declared:
"My intention is to prove that Sem
nacher's action in taking the clothes
of Miss Virginia Rape out of the st.
Francis hotel and to his home in Hol-
lywood was part of conspiracy on
the part of Semnacher, Earl Lynn and
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 eliciting
nothing from Semnacher as to the al
legged extortion scheme. save gen.
eraI denial. His original testimony re-
NAMED unchanged by the examina-
ton