Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-20
COWPUNCHERS "SHOOT UP"
FATTY ARBUCKLE PICTURE

A mob of about $50 men and boys,
many of them cowboys, entered the
Maverick theater here Saturday
night, where a FATTY" Arbuck1e
film was being shown, and shot up
the screen and seized the film, TAX
ing it into the streets and burning
part of it. F. u. Buzzetti, manager
of the theater, said today that rep
resentatives Of the Purity league
and visited him and asked him not
to run the picture earlier in the
day. h~f
Mr.. Buzzetti said: 81 had the pic
cured booked and saw no, reason why
1 should not run 1t. I refused the
request of the Purity league repre-
sentatives, because I believed 1 had
right to run the picture aud did
not need their advice"
No damage was done to the thea.
ter other than shooting up the screen,
Mr.. Buzzetti said, and no attempt
was made to injure him.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 49,
missing witness in the Roscoe G.
(Fatty) Arbuckle case, DR.. Arthur
Beardslee, the Hotel st. Francis
physician who treated Miss Virginia
Rape before her death, has been
found, according to a telegram re-
ceived from the sheriff of Douglas
county, Nevada, at Minden.
DR.. Beardslee yesterday left Min
den for Bridgeport, Mono county,
hu1 fri inn
to the notification given District At
torney Matthew F. Brady, who teIe-
graphed to the Mono county sheriff
to order Beardslee to proceed to San
Francisco at once.
His testimony is expected to throw
light on the condition of Miss Rape
the first day after the Labor day
party in Arbuckle's suite at the st.
Francis, from which her death re-
suited. DR.. Beardslee was wanted
as a witness at the coroner's in
quest, but could not be found.
Statements Conflict
Arbuckle's brief appearance in the
superior court today to obtain a con-
tinuance on the manslaughter charge
pending against him, completed hi5
present schedule of trips outside the
city prison until next Thursday,
when his preliminary examination on
the murder complaint sworn to by
Mrs. Bambina Maud belmont,
member of the party in Arbuckle's
rooms, is set befire Judge S. J.
Lazarus.
Mrs. Mae Taube, another member
of the party, was questioned today
by Brady, who said she had persisted
in her original statement that she
called Harry j. Boyle, assistant man
ager of the hotel, on the telephone
for assistance. At the inquest Mrs.
belmont. said she herself did the
telephoning. Brady said some Inn
portant items of information were
learned from Mrs. Taube and her
statements might lead to taking up
certain new phases of the case be-
fore the grand jury Monday night
Thomas J. Coleman, manager OF
the Hotel st, Francis, and other ex-
ecutives and employees, were called
before Robert H. Mccormack, as
sistant United States attorney in
charge of liquor prosecutions, for
questioning regarding the origin of
twenty quarts of liquor said to have
been consumed at Arbuckles party.
Crowd Kept Back
Today's trip from the city prison
down the hall of justice elevator to
the court room of Judge Harold
Louderback was an uneventful one
for Arbuckle, with no pushing, jos
Ting, curious crowd waiting for his
arrival. Police kept the crowd off
the court room floor.
There vas no battle of attorneys
over the future course of the case,
as by consent of both sides the man
slaughter charge preferred in
grand jury indictment was continued
until September rs.
Seats in the spectator section of
the court room were plentiful for
those able to penetrate the police
group outside the door, while inside
was able to slide into a leather COW
cred arm chair at the attorneys ta-
bic. Prisoners from the county Jail
entered in handouts and sat in tho
dock, but the bailiff explained that
Arbuckle was in custody of the city
police, who did not always hand
cuff their charges.
A group of women from the Wom-
ems vigilante committee occupied q
front row of seats.
NO ONE AT STATION TO MEET
BODY OF MISS VIRGINIA RAPPE
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 10
The body of Miss Virginia Rape,
motion picture actress, for whose
death Roscoe G. (Fatty)) Arbuckle,
charge of murder, arrived here Sat-
urday. No person was at the depot
to meet the body, which was re-
moved to a Hollywood undertaking
establishment. The funeral will be
held Monday