Omaha daily bee., 1921-09-12
.Arbuckle
Booked AS
Film Star Held in Frisco Jail
Following Death Of Actress;
To BE Arraigned
Today.
No Comment by Fatty"

tomorrow with the murder OF Miss
Virginia Rappe, motion picture act
css, Captain OF Dectiyes Duncan
Mathcwson, said today.
Arbuckle was booked on the muir
der charge by the police last night,
and has since been held in jail. He
refused to make any statement or
comment. ....s
Under the California penal code
no bail is allowable TO a person
charged with murder and Captain
Mathewson expressed the opinion
the court will hold Arbuckle for the
action OF the county grand jury. Ii
District Attorney Matthew Brady
returns TO the city in time. the case
is expected 10 be presented TO TIE
grand jury tomorrow night, accord
ing 10 Mathewsou. An inquest will
be held Thursday.
Taken From Arbuckle's Room.
Miss Rappe, who died Friday. was
removed from Arbuckle's rooms in
hotel last Monday in a critical COLI
dition after party at which five
men and four women were present.
Autopsy surgeons said death was
due TO peritonitis, superinduced by
an internal injury.
Assistant District Attorney Mil
ton U'Ren said that the charge OF
murder was based on a section OF
the penal code directing that such
charge be made in cases where death
! resulted from a felony-iu this in
stance, actual or attempted assault.
BY Universal Service.
San Francisco. Sept. ll.-Rigid in
| vestigation by the police, the grand
| jury and the coroner was begun yes
terday into all the circumstances sur
rounding the death of beautiful Vir-
ginia 2appe. the movie actress, fol-
lowing the wild drinking party given
by Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle at the
St. Francis hotel last Monday.
while Arbuckle, accompanied by
Frank Dominguez, his attorney, was
hurrying to San Francisco to face
police inquiry, District Attorney
Brady and Coroner Leland, as well
las officials of the grand jury, issued
orders that viii insure full probe
Of all that occurred when Virginia
| Rappe. according. to statements al.
ready made by witnesses, was locked
Tor more than an hour III Arbuckle's
room. later to be found delirious
and with her clothes torn to shreds.
Contradictory Statement.
The investigation is being made all
the more rigid because of the con-
Trajectory statement now being made
by Mrs. B. NJ. Delmonte. one of the
guests at Arbuckle's party, who in
one breath has declared that Miss
Rappe was dragged by Arbuckle into
his rooms and that she was heard to
struggle with him and to scream.
and who in the next breath, declares
that the assertions which she made
on Friday night have been misquoted.
Mrs. Delmonte, under care OF
physicians at the St. Francis hotel
yesterday, was reported to De in an
exhausted condition and the police
were awaiting favorable moment
to take from heraa a complete state
ment of what had occurred.
The first assertion made by Mrs.
Delmonte, to the effect that Virginia
.Rappe had forcibly been taken BY
Arbuckle into his room, and that he
had abused her. is corrobora,ed BY
the story told by Alice Blake. show
girl. who was onesof the members
OF the party.
Witnesses Rounded In.
Yesterday ,f,er,ao, Da.s.
Griffith, Henry McGrath IN, I1e I'll.
and Thomas Repan dats;lad IL - sa ~
Of the h ID ro,,and G
up many Of those who 1,ad uu haan !,
the narty g;vc,, hv Arh,.,'ia An .ldu oeIn =,
begun their ;nterroaat;or ] =, a. anu a.du
Of CAPTAIN oi Detect;yes, M,en., N -. o1rle ~.
first to be examined was Ira e Ford
louis' who resides at the Palace flo-
lei, ana who Is SAID to have arrang-
81 the details OF the party. Miss
,amleson, nurse who attended
MISS kappe at the Wakefield sanitar-
UNI Just before her death, also. was
Examined, following her statement
made earlier in the day that Virginia
Kfappes last words were: "Cail
Noscoe. O,
ne police announced that it was
neir intention to thoroughly ques-
ION Mrs. Delmonte and Miss Alice
Wake, as well as Miss Zey Pevron.
vi1o were among those in the party.
hey also declared that Arbuckle
fouid be put on the grin as soon as
e reached San Francisco, together
nth Fred Fishbeck and L. Shouman.
Tho were Arbuckle's companions at