Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-05
WOMAN JUROR
GIVES REASONS
FOR FIRM STAND
San Francisco Grand Jury
Will Probe .Arbuckle
Trial Scandal.
MRS. HUBBARD TALKS

| SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5.-The San
Francisco grand jury will be asked by
| District Attorney Matthew Brady to start
an immediate investigation Of an alleged
attempt to approach and intimidate Mrs.
Helen NJ Hubbard, one of the Arbuckle
jury, whose solid stand for the come
dams conviction resulted in disagree
ment of the jury.
Mrs. Hubbard, in a statement, charged
| that Gus Olivia, a commission merchant,
and G. c. Irwin, an attorney, approached
her husband, on Saturday and endeavored
to get him to communicate with her in
the jury room by letter urging her 10
vote to acquit Arbuekle.
CHARGES OF
INTIMIDATION.
Mrs. Hubbard also made a charge Of in
timdation against several Of her fellow
Jurors, including August Fritze, the fore
man.
"They are saying terrible things about
me-" said Mrs. Helen Hubbard, the mem
Der of the Arbuckle jury whose stubborn
refusal on the first ballot to the last, to
listen to che arguments for the come
! dams acquittaI led to a disagreement
and the necessity for a retrial, but be-
fore God, I did my duty as ! saw it."
BELIEVES
ARBUCKLE GUILTY.
Seated by her own freside after sixteen
| days In captivity as juror in case In
volvfng testimony which in former times
! 1t would have keen considered improper
| for woman to hear under any circum-
stances, Mrs. Hubbard told her reasons
for voting to send the comedian to the
| jute mills Of San Quentin Penitentiary for
| one to ten years.
81 believed Arbuckle to be guilty. I
! til to- n
! testimony proved it; therefore L voted
for conviction and no power IN heaven or
earth could change my fixed opinion,
Mrs. Hubbard said with a fare OF indig-
nation.
Mrs Hubbard is a large woman, about
40 years of age, and emphatic in her
statements.
Pm a housewife" Mrs. Hubbard con-
tinued, land I didn't believe that testl-
mony Of Kate Brennans, the chamber
maid, about her having welded duster
ana cloth in the room, which would
have eliminated the finger prints OF Ar
buckle and Miss Rappe on the door.
For that's what decided mel believe
those fngerprints are those Of Arbuckle
and Miss Rappe. And I believe that she
was injured when she tried to get out
Of his room and he showed her against
the door.
Kate Brennan said she was the only
one In that suite Of rooms half an hour.
As housewife, I know that she could not
possibly have done the amount Of work
she said she did IN an hour and half
that was my opinion as a juror.
SOME EVIDENCE
| SOUNDED DOPEY.
"The story Of Mrs. Minnie Neighbors,
the Los Angeles policeman's wife,
sounded ."doped" to me. I did not be-
lieve a word Of IT, She contradicted her
self too many times about having seen
/ Miss Rape az a health resort.
MANY Of the jurors In the jury
room said they didn't like the district
attorneys conduct OF the case, especially
/ the conduct OF HIS deputies, and would
vote to free Arbuckle on that account.
when I held out alone for conviction
so many hours, they all third degreed me.
But 1t dod no good. Although Foreman
August Fritze did not try to use third
| degree methods on me- he at no time
treated me with civility.
Several Of the jurors said they felt
Arbuckle to be guilty, but they felt they
must give him the benefit Of the doubt,
because the State had not proved its case
absolutely"