THE ARBUCKLE DRAMA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17956, 5 December 1921, Page 7

THE ARBUCKLE DRAMA.

JURY AWAY FOR 20 HOURS. DECISION NOT YET REACHED WITNESS REPORTED POISONED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 3. The jury is still considering its verdict in the Arbuckle case. It was locked up at 4.15 p.m. yesterday, and at 12.15 p.m. to-day, after 20 hours' confineme it, it had' not yet reached a decision. Arbuckle displayed nervousness in the closing hours of tho trial. While his counsel was speaking he was making innumerable paper balls. Arbuckle's counsel arraigned the prosecution for failing to bring out any definite detailed statement by Miss Rappo to explain her injury, and also for its failure to call Mrs. Delmont, who lodged the original complaint. Artoickle's. attorneys declare that Arbuckle has received threats of assassination if he is acquitted. They have also announced that Miss Anne Morgan, a nurse, who testified previously that she had seen Miss Rappe ill and tear her clothes off, is now lying at death's door as the result of po/son. How this was administered is not known. They assert that the prosecution attempted to intimidate Miss Morgan, declaring that if she came to San Francisco to testify her career would be ruined. It is alleged that an unidentified man presented a box of poisoned candy to Miss Morgan.