Arizona republican., 1922-04-14
FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL IA. 1922
Whoever is IN a hurry shoacs that
the thing he is about is too big for
him. Haste and hurry are Very diff
ferei1t things. Chesterfield.
Acquittai and vindieation


Mr.. Roscoe Arbucke is not learned His
was neglected, and worthless youth and early
manhood To his ignorance and unfamiliarty with
the only language he ever knew we must attribute
his use Of the word 'vndication" in speaking his
acquittal for Arbuckle was acquitted, may say
exonerated of the death of Miss Virginia Rappe
But he was not vindcated and will never be.
we may assume that he was in way respon-
sible for that young woman's DEATH and perhaps he
was not. She was not. according to his testimony
and that of other witnesses. invited guest at the
drunken orgy which he staged and which resulted
in her death Everything that took place there may
taken place in the order and that he and
ali other witnesses for the defense remembered it
hazily and drunkeny. So that affair he has been
acquitted. as we suppose. he should have been.
There were two cases against Arbucke. One of
them was the Rappe case. concerning which
paratively few people cared. There was. much
in the circumstances and place of the victims taking
off to arouse either sympathy with her indigna-
tion against the accused in connection with the
affair, The death of no at those apartments In
the St. Francis that afternoon would have been
matter of popular concern. Any of them could have
been well spared
But the case. guiltless Arbuckle may have
been of any criminal part in the woman's death,
have disclosed his gross immortality and depravity
from his youth.
other men are immoral and depraved, but Ar
buckle had come TO occupy an unusual position. He
had become an idol of youth through his shadow
the screen He appeared be a roliicking, good
natured parsonage jester who especially appealed
TO youth They believed him to be clean and whole
some, when, as has been disclosed he had been from
boyhood until that September afternoon inexpressiby
foul and mean, without redeeming trait That is
the other case against him; that is the charge of
which he has not been acquitted and never can be
acquitted
Perhaps for the Rappe case he has been
severely punished than he ought to have been.
considerable part his fortune been swept away.
He has been subjected to a degree of humiliation
which to less gross person would be torture, and
ne has probably deprived of the of acquir
ng other wealth to replace what he has lost.
But that will be part of his punishment for
his crime, against the people of California but
the people of country especially the children
Of the movie picture audiences. We cannot conceive
that Arpuckle will get back into the pictures.
The industry is having hard enough time Of it as
it is without taking on such load We suppose
that there few moving picture houses in the
country that would dare exhibit an Arbucke film
oN4o4SeoA APoPPo S0SSt
reporter put the following into Arbuckle's mouth:
My life has been devoted to the production Of
clean pictures for the happiness of children. shall
try enlarge my field of usefulness so that my art
shall have wider service"
We suppose when ArbucHe read that he
hazy as to its meaning my art" is scream equal
70 any antic of his the films the of an ele-
phant chimpanzee. The foregoing and more
appears to have been uttered by Arbuckle, which
reminds of episode, in Harry Leon Wilson's
Merton Of the Movies in which he describes the
high-flown language of a star Miss Mercer. whom
the director privately described as ignorant half
wit but who made by reporters and hired scribes
10 put the beautiful and uplifting thoughts into
words about herself for her.
Following ArbuckIes extravagant speech
have the more eloquent observation of his attorney.
@Arbuckle has no immediate plans
And believe he can have no ultimate plans
in which the public may be concerned. If he should
ever get back into the pictures the $15O.00O year
with which Will H. Hays lured from the post
office department will have been wasted.