Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-12
FAMOUS FATTY
ARBUCKLE HELD
ASMURDERER
Film Comedian Jailed Without
Bond Following Death Of
Virginia Rappe, Young
Actress
GAY PARTIES REVEALED
WITH ACCUSED AS HOST
Fatal Affair Laid To Liquor
Gathering Week Ago
Fatty" In Silk Pajamas
Before Guests

Before Guests
MEDFORD, Mass, Sept. IL. -
Mayor Haines today notified all mo-
ton picture houses here that all films
of Fatty Arbuckle will be barred
until Arbuckle's case has been dis
! posed of in the courts at San Fran
cisco.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 12.-Ros-
coe FATTY" Arbuckle, next to
Charlie Chaplin the children's IA
vorite film comedian, but private
ly known to the gay motion picture
colonies of Los Angeles and New
| York as thorough Bohemian, occu-
pies a cell in the city jail, held with
out bail in connection with the death
of Miss Virginia Rappe, beautiful
film actress, which followed the lat
est and probably the last of the ia
nous private Arbuckle Qualifications.
Death From Injury.
The party was held last Monday.
Miss Rappe was removed from Ar
buckles suite in the luxurious Saint
Francis hotel that afternoon, suffer
| ing agony. She died after linger-
! ing for days under treatment for alco-
holism, an erroneous diagnosis. Her
death now proves to have been due
to an internal rupture which caus-
! ed peritonitis.
The police said they were holding
Arbuckle "for taking human life
while in the act of committing or
attempting to commit felony In
explanation of this term they said
there was evidence that Arbuckle
! had either committed or attempted
to commit a criminal assault on Miss
Rappe.
4 Arbuckle arrived back in San
Francisco in his famous cream-col-
ored, custom-built automobile, often
compared to a Pullman car, from
Los Angeles, whittier he had hasten
ed after Miss Rappe's alarming con-
dition caused the dispersal of the
party" He wore Norfolk jacket,
dark green golf breeches, wooden
stockings and tan low-cut shoes.
He was highly nervous. From an
ornate, gold-inlaid silver cigarette
case he took cigarettes one after an
other, tapped each delicately on his
thumb-nail and smoked them chain
fashion, lighting fresh one from
the butt on the one before.
/ Fatty was booked on the Jail blot
ter on the same sheet with dere-
lict locked up for vagrancy.
"Roscoe Arbuckle, native Of Kan
sas, aged "a, height five feet ten
inches, complexion ruddy, hair light
brown, inclined to be stout" num-
bled Detective Sergeant Tom Re-
gan, writing down Arubckle's de-
| scriptive list.
yes" Fatty permitted the flicker
of smile to tighten his dolOrous
expression. Eyes, little corpulent,
weight 260.55
| Charged With Murder.
Regain did not subscribe to the
humor of this. He went on writing,
and repeating as he wrote: Charged
with the murder of motion picture
actress" ....-....-.
Arbuckle consented to pose for a
newspaper picture.
| Look pleasant" said the camera
man. '' d,
mot under the circumstances, "
Arbuckle replied.
| Then he was led away TO cell No
| II, deepest detection pictured in the
droop of his head, the expression of
his face, his gait - the entire en-
semble of Fatty Arbuckle, who was
".the life of the party" when it be-
gan here last Monday. He sat silent
in the cell His face averted. This
= was the anti-climax of the party in
his suite in the luxurious st. Francis.
: After the death of Miss Rappe
, Arbuckle was summoned to return
| here from Los Angeles. A bond anc
warrant clerk were held at the dis
, trict attorneys office all Saturday
r evening awaiting Arbuckle's arrival
h which gave the impression that ne
would be held on charge no more
serious than that Of mansiaughter
which is bailable.
But when Fatty came into The
Q offices, Detective Captain Mathesol
calmly walked from conference
n room, placed hand on Arbuckie''
" huge sholdiervbgkqjvbgkq vbgkqi
:. huge shoulder and said, "you arr
+ under arrest charged with murder
You are to be held without bond
# Matheson said that although much o
the story of the, alleged incidents /;
+ the suite has become public mucl
~ more is being withheld.
Called for Arbuckle,
# Saturday evening statehnent wa
n taken of Mrs Jean Jameson, nurse
is who was with Miss Rappe during he
last hours. She swore that MIS-
Ranne suffering great pain, KEEP