The Mena weekly star., 1921-12-01
ARBUCKLE TELLS
 0F FATAL PARTY
41 comedian Takes Stand and M.kee Sweeping Denials of Any coilt in Miss Rappe's Death
 Ewes Details of Affair.

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 zpenf the greater part of the day on the wifness stand, giving in detaii' ,,.der direct and cross-examination, t.;z story of the hotel party during ,sh;c6. the state maintains, Miss Vir- o;nia Rappe, motion picture actress ,,sce;x<a injuries from which the lat ter dlsd.
 Arbuckle testified that the party ii his rooms was entirely impromptu, fhaf only few had been invited but tbat the others had dropped m later and nemained. He declared tnaV ns hnd nn engagement to go out ana when he left the party and went iilco his bedroom it was for the purpose of changing his clothes to Keep tnis aupointment.
 'sI lacked my door to. keep the Wom- % en and others out of the room; men I went into the bath room. The oatn room door struck against the pros. @ frate form of Miss Rappe. mat uas. the first time l knew she was in tho room."
 <rhuckle in taking the stand, said he came to San Francisco rom Los Angeles September and stopt at the Hotel St. Francis. He named the Ruests at the party in which ne IS al 1eRed to have fatally injured Virginia E&ppe, saying that he had invited no ons fo the party but Mrs. May Taube.
 Arbuckle said he had an engage 1nert to go out with Mrs. Taube a 1ew Minutes after Miss Rappe is al- n 4- Lox LoA.- 5rrrnd htr him
 VI found Miss Rappe on the bath room floor. very sick. I assisted her
 ssShe was holding her abdomen and
 gave her some water"
 I helped her into the bed" Ar buckle continued. "She said that she had dizzy spells often. Then 1 went back to the bath room. When returned Miss Rappe was on the floor, rolling and moaning. placed her on the bed again"
 vest and others entered the room. l went into another room and when l cx1a1e back, Miss Rappe was on the bed tearing her clothing"
 Arbuckle said he was dressed in bath robe and underclothing. The bath robe was introduced and he identified it.
 Mrs. Belmont, guest of the party. told me to leave Miss Rappe," AruckIe testified. "I told Mrs. Del mont to shut up or I would throw her out of the window"
 Arbuckle told of taking Miss Kappe from the room and into an- other room with the assistance of Harry Boyle, assistant manager of the hotel.
 The door leading from his room to the corridor and a window of the room were open, he. said.
 sfI did not hear Miss Rappe say, He hurt me or say anything that could he SO understood" he testified.
 He denied having forced Miss Rappe against a door or having told Alfred Semnacher, guest of the party. that he applied ice to Miss Rappe's body.
 He denied testimony by Jesse J. NorRard, janitor of the Culver City, CaIlf., motion picture studio, that he offered Norgard sum of money for the key to Miss Rappe's room.
 Arbuckle said he did not know Mrs. Qelmont previous to September 5, the date of the party in which Miss K6ppe is alleged to have sustained her Injury.
 Arbuckle never saw Alice Blake, a x1est of the party, in his life before 14 affair, he said. Miss Fey Pre- xoSt. another guest, also was a 4tranger to him, he said. 'I had no 14ca that Miss Rappe, Mrs. Belmont, Miss Blake or Miss Provost were coming to the party until they ac- tually arrived" he said.
 There were bottles of whiskey, gin, wafer and orange juice on the table ln the room where the guests were, De said. Fred Fischback, his room mate, supplied the liquor, he said
 Arbuckle testified in a loud, clear voice and seemed at ease in every Way. He denied knowledge of the zource of the liquor other than that it was procured by Fischback. He was eating breakfast when the guests arrived, he said.
 Arbuckle said he had made an en- EAgement with Mrs. Taube the day Q<aore the party 'to go out" the next
 did not see Miss Rappe dance" he said. "I danced with Miss Blake"
 Lowell A. sherman, an actor, Sem- uaeher and Ira Fortlouis salesmen, were there while the dancing was in progress, he said.
 Arbuckle said he had Sherman ask kortlouis to leave the rooms during {he party. Mrs. Taube came back while the party was in progress and said she would "call back" he said.
 Mrs. Taube asked: "Who are all those people 2"
 Search me, don't know" Ar Duckle said he replied.
 Mrs. Taube seemed 'peeved' Ar buckle said. "She probably left be- kause she was "peeved" at the guests Rof the party"
 Mrs. Taube was introduced to Miss Rappe," he said. Miss Rappe vas dressed in a green skirt and jacket.n
 'I don't think her hair was down. Fl did not see her go into her room '
 Il did not tell anyone that I was xoing into my room to get dressed or that I was going out with Mrs. Iaube," Arbuckie said. q went into my room and locked the door"
 Frank Dominguez. Los Angeles at- torney, was the first person he told of having found Miss Rappe in the bath room, Arbuckle said. Domin- Euez was his former counsel.
 Gavin McNab, counsel for the da- Tense, said he would close the de- Tense case with the reading of Chi cago and New York deposifions and with an offer to prove that Geo Glennon, hotel detective. obtained . 1tAtement, tending to clear Arburtye From Miss Rappe. Clennon's tesfi, =WHUUu WX XE rr.taI l..