Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-24
ARBUCKLE TRIAL I
CONTINUED WITH
AGENT FOR MISS
RAPPE ON STAND.
Alfred SemnaCher Manager
Of F Jim Beauty, Tells His
Version of Party in Hotel
in San Francisco,
TESTIFIES THAT CLOTHES
OF DEAD GIRL WERE TORN
Court Takes Recess During
testimony to Enable Ar
buckle to Regain His COM
pOSure,
(B7 The Associated press,p

San Francisco, Calf. Sept. "a
Alfred Semnacher, reported to have
told the grand jury in Los Angeles
or admissions he said Roscoe (Fat-
w Arbuckle had made, was called
as the first witness today when the
preliminary hearing in police court
on charge Of the murder of Miss
Virginia Rappe was resumed.
Arbuckle entered the court room
with more apparent cheerfulness
than yesterday. and kissed his wife
and her mother saying to the lat
ter, Hello, Mamma"
Aside from court attaches, at
torneys and newspaper men, less
than half a dozen men were in the
room.
Semnacher. who was Miss
Rappe's manager. attended the
party in Arbuckle's suite at the
Hotel st. Francis from which en-
sued the death of Miss Virginia
Rappe.
He began the story of his arrival
in San Francisco with Miss Rappe
and Mrs. Bambina NJ, belmont,
from Los Angeles.
While having breakfast IN the
Palace hotel. he said, about noon
on September s. Miss Rappe was
PACED with call to go to the st.
Francis, to which hotel he drove
them.
Leaving them at the st. Francis.
he said, he returned about 1880 and
called up Fred Fischbach on the
house telephone. Fischbach in
vited him up to Room 1920. he
continued. where he found Ar
buckle, Fischbach. Lowell Sher-
man, Ira Fortlouis, Miss Rappe,
Mrs. belmont. Miss Zeh Provost.
Alice Blake and Mrs. Mae Taube,
and he thought one or two others.
Arbuckle and Sherman, dressed
in pajamas and bathrobe and slip
pers, were eating at q table, Sem
nacher added. The rest were in
street attire, except Mrs. belmont,
according to the witness. -
All of the party, except Mrs. Del
mont. he said. were eating, while
some were drinking liquor, which
he defined as orange juice that
could have contained gin or any,
thing else.'
Semnacher testified that he
stayed perhaps an hour, having
something to eat and coffee to
drink.
Then he took Alice Blake out for
q rehearsal at a cafe, but learning
the rehearsal had been postponed,
they returned in about half an hour,
he said, finding Miss Clark and
a Miss Campbell had Joined the
party. He declared he could not
remember if any one had left the
suite.
Arbuckle's eyes moved slowly
from the witness to Isadore Golden.
the assistant district attorney, who
conducted the questioning, and
back again.
DO you remember the testimony
you gave before the coroner's
jury?" asked Golden.
"Ill never forget it," replied
Semnacher.
Golden then read inquest testi-
mony of Semnacher that "all were
having drinks"
The witness asserted first the
short reporter must have
been wrong because all were eat
ing as matter of fact, but he add
ed later that he himself might have
been mistaken.
Semnacher explained his omis-
sion of Mrs. Taube's name at the
Inquest to the fact that he did not
Snow her name until later, when he
saw a newspaper picture of Ar
buckle leaning out of a hotel st.
Francis window in company with
Mrs. Taube and others.
Golden said, 1--WE are here to learn
he truth" TO which Frank Domin-
suez, Arbuckle's attorney added,
we believe it."
Unlike Arbuckle's first arraign-
nent, when unshaven Monday
prisoners filled the dock.
Well dressed women today pressed
heir faces against the steel bars
o get better view and hearing of
he case.
The liquor on the table at the
oarty "came out of bottles Sem
lacher testified regarding the ap.
oearance of the room on his return.
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