The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1921-09-22
ARBUCKLE CASE
in LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles, Cal, Sept. 21.-Ad-
missions declared tor have been made
BY Roscoe ('Fatty'')~ Arbuckle that
he had used "a foreign substance in
an attack upon Miss Virginia Rappe
during a party at the st. Francis ho-
tel in San Francisco, were described
BY Al Semnacher, a friend of Ar
buckle, today before the Los Angeles
fcounty grand jury, according to w. C.
Doran, chief deputy district attorney.
Arbuckle is held at San Francisco
charged with numbering Miss Rappe.
Dcran said Semnacher swore Ar
buckle had told Of applying ice to por-
tions of Miss Rappe's body.
Doran outlined the testimony in
confirming reports that Semnacher
had made Identical statements to him
at an earlier time and then had de-
admitted facts. a.
Semnacher testified that on the
rlornfng after the party Afbuckle told
him in the presence of Lowell Sher-
man, actor; Fred Fischback, director,
and Harry Mccullough, chauffeur,
that he had taken Miss Rappe into a
room with him and had committed
certain acts in connection with the al
legged crime. These acts, according to
Doran, were of a character likely t0
have caused the injury from which
Miss Rappe's death resulted.
The grand jury session was called
by Doran TO hear this testimony, in,
formation concerning which was inn
mediately conveyed to District Attor-
ney Brady at San Francisco. ,
Mccullough, chauffeur for Arbu-
kle, who was present when the al
legged statements were made by Ar
buckle, according to 4Semnachers tes-
timony, also was examined by the
grand jury today but his testimony
amination that he would leave Los
Angeles for San Francisco at once.
. San Francisco, Sept. 21.-Testi-
,mony said to have been given today
by Alfred Semnacher before the Los
Angeles county grand jury in rela-
tion to the Arbuckle murder case here
sis in direct contradiction of. his testi-
mony before the San Francisco grand
jury" District Attorney Brady said.
Brady said he would have Sem
nacher here tomorrow for further
questioning. He announced also that
Lowell Sherman, another witness, who
is missing, could be made the subject
of the grand jury indictment in the
event he fails to answer Brady's de-
mand- to return to San Francisco.
Semnacher wired later that he did not
have money enough to come to San
Francisco to give testimony in the
Arbuckle case, Brady ANNOUNCED.
II told him to get up here without
any loss OF time or2suffer the conse-
iquences," Brady said. at seems
strange to me that heSc could bring Miss
.Rappa snsd .MrS- Iaefnsonf - Saii, a ETeii.
cisco from Los Angeles in an automo-
bile and evidently spend a lot Of mon
ey here and then suddenly lose all he
had in the world"
Scmnacher motored from Los An
geles with Miss Rappe and Mrs. Del
mont, who brought the murder charge
against Arbuckie, a few days before
the party in which Arbuckle is al
legged to have fatally injured Miss
Rape. Frederick Fischback and Ira
c. Fortlouis, who were guests at the
party in the st. Francis hotel in
which Arbuckle is charged with hav-
ing fatally injured Miss Rape, ar
rived in San Francisco from Los An
geles today, Brady announced, and
will be questioned later.
Brady said-that Semnacher testified
before the grand jury here that Ar
buckle made no admissions to him
whatever concerning his alleged rela-
tions with Miss Rappe which is in
contradiction to his purported Los An
geles testimony that Arbuckle did
make these admissions.