ARBUCKLE'S TRIAL
EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE. FINGER-PRINTS ON DOORKNOB SAN FRANCISCO, November 23. At the trial of Roscoe Arbuckle to-day some of the strongest testimony for the defence was introduced. The doors of the hotel room into which it is alleged Arbucklo took Hiss Rappe were displayed in Court, and finger-print experts and eriininologists testified that the knob showed imprints rmde by Miss Kappe's fingers, these being overlaid by the finger-prints of Arbuckle. One of the hotel staff told the jury that tlie room was open all the time, and the window shades were up, the interior being in full view of other hotel patrons. Arbuckle, when listening to this testimony, appeared jovial. Mrs. Arbuckle wept occasionally. The prosecution introduced as a witness a chambermaid at the hotel, who testified that she had carefully rubbed the knob of the door previous to the taking of the finger-prints. The prosecution thus hopes to negate the contention of the defence that Miss Rappe willingly entered the room, since she had her hand on the knob. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 280, 24 November 1921, Page 5
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