ARBUCKLE SENSATION

Otago Witness, Issue 3525, 4 October 1921, Page 21

ARBUCKLE SENSATION

SAN FRANCISCO. September 26. The Arbuckle defence gained a victory when Dl Beardsley, who attended Miss Rappe when she was first taken ill, testi fied that the injury could have been caused by a fall or other cause as well as by violence. September 28. j Judge Lazarus intimated in the Police i Court” that he would probably commit j Arbuckle to the Superior Court on a j charge of murder. The prosecution in- j traduced a new witness, a chambermaid 1 in the hotel, who heard Miss Rappe pro- j testing against the attack. This testi 1 mony caught the defence by surprise, j Arbuckle’s lawyers protested against the | prosecution’s failure to introduce its chief j witness, Mrs IJelmont. who swore the complaint against the comedian. |

September 28. The Police Court judge committed Arbuckle to the Superior Court on a charge of manslaughter, fixing bail at 5000 dollars cash and 10,000 dollars in bonds. TJIE ISSUE AT STAKE. SAN FRANCISCO, September 28. Judge Lazarus, in summing up, censured the prosecution for producing so little evidence, and said: "W e are not only trying a man who has given joy and pleasure to all the world. ' We are trying ourselves. Actually in a large cense we are trying present-day morals and social conditions. The irsue here is really- larger than the guilt or innocence of this particular unfortunate man. The issues are universal. They- grow from the conditions which are matters for comment and apprehension by every true lover and protector of American institutions. The thing that happened was the culmination of an orgy, and the same things happen in other big cities all