The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-09-30
PHYSICIAN Tells
Of Rape INJURY
Says Rupture Was His First Di-
ag1osiS of Case.
NO APPEARANCE OF DEBAUcH
Hotel ST. Francis Doctor Describes
Film Girls Agony After Party
FATTY" Acts as Own Attorney
in Another Court.


San Francisco, Sept. 27.-Dr. Arthur
Beardslee, testifying in the police
court examination of Roscoe G. (Fatty)
Arbuckle, said he found Miss Virginia
Rape, whose death Arbuckle is
charged with having caused, in great
pain when he was called into the case.
In the absence of his attorneys, Ar
buckle acted for himself in the Superb
or court in agreeing with the district
attorney that the manslaughter charge
pending against him should be contin-
ued until October 8.
Miss Rappe's writing in intense
pain overshadowed evidences of alco-
holism, Doctor Beardslee testified, and
it was necessary to quiet her byS the
use of a drug.
This was the evening of September
5, few hours after the Hotel st.
Francis party, out of which the charge
against Arbuckle arose according to
the physician, and early the next morn
ing he discovered evidence to support
an earlier conclusion that Miss Rape
had suffered an internal injury.
From the beginning he realized it
was a surgical case, and advised re-
moval to hospital.
There was no other conclusion to
draw from the evidence than that the
bladder was ruptured." the witness
said.
In answer to hypothetical question
regarding the cause of a torn bladder,
Doctor Beardslee replied that he would
consider external force, such as fall
or blow the origin.
Violent and continued vomiting
might cause such rupture, the wit
ness replied to a question from Ar
buckles counsel.
A black and blue spot on one arm
was the only external sign of injury,
according to Doctor Beardsley.
Don't call me your friend" snapped
the witness at Frank Dominguez, Ar
buckles chief counsel, after a long Sc
rieS of tits between them during Ques-
tiOning by the defense attorney.
Insists Rupture Cause of Pain.
Although the defense attempted to
draw from Doctor Beardslee an admis-
sion that other internal causes might
have been responsible for his patients
pain, the physician said his composite
knowledge of the case pointed to
bladder rupture.
The morning after the party the case
was turned over to DR.. M. e. Rumwell,
according to Doctor Beards1ee, who
said he did not tell his conclusions
about the patients condition to Doctor
Rumwell, because the latter did not
ask him.
Doctor Beardslee said he was merely
following professional custom and
that he would have passed on his in
formation had it been requested.
did it appear Miss Rape had been
on debauch?" questioned Dominguez.
Doctor Beardslee replied that it did
not appear So and in any event the in
tense pain overshadowed evidence of
alcoholism.
This was classical picture of a
ruptured bladder" Doctor Beardslee
said, when the defense counsel revert
ed to questions about other possible
internal injuries
The witness denied that he had told
the sheriff when he was notified on his
hunting trip that his testimony was
wanted, shat too much high life" was
the trouble with Miss Rape.
Semnacher Is Recalled.
Al Semnacher state witness, was
recalled to the stand in the "Fatty"
Arbuckle murder hearing, at which
time Defense Attorney Frank Domin-
guez precipitated a sensation
Dominguez, explaining to Judge Syl-
vain Lazarus the purpose of his
line of cross-examination declared
"My intention is to prove that Sem
nachers action in taking the clothes
of Miss Virginia Rape out of the st.
Francis hotel and to his home in Hol-
lywood was part of conspiracy on
the part of Semnacher, Earl Lynn and
Mrs. B. NJ. belmont, the object OF
which was to extort money from Mr..
Roscoe Arbuckle.
'It is my duty to prove the exist
ence and to establish the facts OF this
conspiracy, and l am prepared to
do it,
Dominguez succeeded in eliciting
nothing from Semnacher as to the al
legged extortion scheme, save a gen.
eral denial. His originla testimony re-
NAMED unchanged by the examina-
ton.