The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-15
IS WAR OF WORDS
Defense and Prosecution At
tOrneys Stage Court Clash.
Five Tentative Jurors to Try
ArbuckIe in the Box.

San Francisco. Nov. 15.-VerbaI
pyrotechnics between the chief coun-
sci for the defense, Gavin McNab. and
District Attorney Matthew Brady,
promised to be the main enlivening
features today at the legal grind to
secure a jury to try Roscoe Fatty
Arbuckle for Granddaughter.
Climaxing clash after clash thruout
the first day. McNab just before ad-
journment last night charged that he
would prove by seven witnesses that
the district attorney had 'impounded
Witnesses and threatened them with
Jail" unless they signed statements
favorable to the prosecution.
District Attorney Brady. in reply,
rose and told the court that if such a
thing were proved, his resignation
would go to the mayor within an hour
after the proof had been produced.
Five tentative jurors. including one
woman, were in the box as court con-
vened today. All were subject to per-
emptory challenge later. So far but
two jurors have been excused for cause
and no apparent reluctance to serve
was noticeable on the part of the
talesnen examined to date. A jury
will likely be completed by late to-
morrow.
Thanked by counsel, Arbuckle sits
thru the interminably questioning of
talesmen with his eyes on the face of
his tall, suave chief of counsel McNab.
His face wears a look of interest which
from time to time is superseded by
bewiIderment at the involved hypo-
thetical questions shot at the Jurors.
Two things are outstanding the
questioning of jurors. The state will
rely to . considerable extent on cir
cumstantial evidence. The defense
will depend largely on expert medical
testimony to clear Arbuck1e
Long Sought Witness Found.
(By the Associated Press.)
Chicago, Nov. 15.-Miss Betty
Campbell. long sought as an impor
tant witness in the Fatty" Arbuckle
case, was found today in her home
old, was a member of the party at
which Virginia Rape met her death.
She denied she had attempted to hide
from the San Francisco authorities.
Rape was killed by Fatty or that
he had any thing, to do with her
DEATH" the girl said.
Here's why:
81 joined the party at 4 o'clock that
afternoon. Virginia according to the
have been fatally injured by Fatty two
or three hours earlier. She was at
that time lying in an adjoining room.
Il remained at the party until after
O'Clock that evening.
Now, we drank, danced and played
the photograph all that time and the
party included the same people who
had been there with Virginia-there
was. Fatty, Al Semnacher. Virginia's
managers Fred Fishback. Mrs Del
mont, Zeh Provost, Lowell Sherman
and two others besides myself
My point is this:
1T does not seem possible if Ar
buckle had committed the terrible
crime with which he is now charged
that the party would have continued
thus and that the same people who
now are testifying against him should
have remained in it.
During the entire time I was pres
ent I heard not a single word from
anybody to indicate that there had
been any trouble of any kind except
two statements from Arbuckle him
self.
"Once ne explained that he had sent
Virginia out of the party, because she
had become too wild and noisy.
And later at dinner he said to
Scmnacher: I think you should take
her out of here. I don't want to be
responsible for her
MRS. belmont came back into the
suite after Sherman left" Miss Camp
bell said. land had several drinks. I
heard her say nothing about Vir-
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