FILM STABS DEATH

Southland Times, Issue 19330, 15 September 1921, Page 5

FILM STABS DEATH

THE SAN FRANCISCO SENSATION. CHIEF WITNESS MISSING. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams.) NEW YORK, September 13. (Received September 14, 9.15 p.m.) The chief witness against Arbuckle has mysteriously disappeared. When the inquest was resumed Mrs Delmont, who laid the murder complaint, failed to substantiate her first story. She now says that Arbuckle merely followed Miss Rappe into a bedroom and closed the door, end did not drag her in. She described Rappe as tearing off her own clothes. The inquest proceedings became rather farcical when Mrs Delmont grew sleepy on the witness stand, and told the Coroner that she took a hypodermic injection before coming into Court.

The Grand Jury announced that it could not indict Arbuckle until it obtained further evidence regarding certain matters which must be cleared up. The prosecuting attorney announced that several women witnesses before the Grand Jury reversed themselves concerning what happened in the room where Rappe received her injuries. The Attorney declared that he would ask for the prosecution of these witnesses on the ground of perjury, and if the Grand Jury failed to indict, he would proceed to the prosecution of Arbuckle under the police court charge of murder.