MOVIE SCANDAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6184, 15 September 1921, Page 5

MOVIE SCANDAL.

■IS ARBUCKLE GUILTY?

CHIEF WITNESS MYSTERIOUSLY

DISAPPEARS.

COMPLAINANT GROWS SLEEPY IN WITNESS BOX!

(Received Sept. 14, 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, .Sept. 13.

The chief witness against Arbucklo lias mysteriously ' disappeared.

When the inquest was resumed, Mrs Delmont, who laid the murder complaint, failed to substantiate her first story. She now says that Ar,buckle merely followed Miss Rappe into a bedroom, closed the door, and did not drag her in. She described Miss Rappe as tearing off her own clothes.

The inquest proceedings became farcical when Mrs Delmont grew sleepy on the witness stand and told the coroner haltingly that she took a .hypodermic before coming into the court.—A and N.Z.C.A.

(Received Sept. 14, 8.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13. The Grand Jury announced that it cannot indict Arbuckle until it obtains further evidence regarding certain matters which must be cleared up. The prosecuting attorney has announced that several women witnesses before the Grand Jury reversed themselves concerning what happened in the room where Mrs Rappe received her injuries. The attorney declared that he will ask for the prosecution of these witnesses on the ground of perjury, and if the Grand Jury fails to indict, will proceed to the prosecution of Arbuckle under a police court charge o-f murder.—A. and N.Z.C.A.