Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1921, Page 4

-~' ama Be eee. ae eet ” i t < 2 (paibeahnarsoponunets Te EN s = 6 2 hd. ~—apeaecigennen ea ~~ ge eee PAGE FOUR CONFESSION IN KENNEDY CASE MAY BE AIRED Newspaper Reporter Prepared to Reveal Evidence Given Him “In Confidence” by Arthur Burch, Is Report LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13.—Chandler Sprague, a Los An geles Examiner reporter, the newspaper announced today, is under subpoena to appear before the county grand jury to testify regarding the case of A: rthur C. Burch and Mrs. Mada- lynne Obenchain, indicted for the alleged murder of J. Bel- ton Kennedy. Sprague said he expected to be regarding @ conversation had with Burch in the jail to him regarding the case which he said were to be kept in co; fidence until Burch gave him permis on to make them public or un [| Sprague was required to make them nder oath. Sprague said he regarded subpoena to appear before the jury as releasing him from his pledge of secrecy Burch when questioned at the jail today about Sprague’s statement | about the alleged conversation, said: “It's a lie.” Mrs. Obenchain said ‘There's not a word of truth in it PERJURY CHARGED AGAINST GIRL IN ARBUCKLE ASSAULT, REPORT (Continued from Page 1.) Alice Blake, another prosecution wit- ness, was missing. STORY COMPLETELY District Attorney Brady's state- ment follows: “We have sent Miss Pyvron home under surveillance. The girl changed her story completely before the grand jury. Whether or not we shall arrest her and charge her with perjury will depend on further developments. 1 am convinced, however, that perjury has been committed by her. “I am convinced that uhdue in fluence and pressure of a sinister character has been brought to beac on her and other witnesses, one of whom, Alice Blake, has mysteriously disappeared from her home in Berke ley, We have been unable to find her. “In spite of these efforts to thwart the ends of justice the investigation will proceed and no effort will be spared to bring the guilty ones to! their just deserts. “Whenever wealth and influence are brought to the bar of justice every sinister and corrupt practice is used in an effort to free the accused. It is always easy to convict a poor man The wealthy malefactors are the ones who find means of using their wealth to their advantage. Wealth and in fluence should not count in favor of a defendant, neither should they count mst him. This casé should be Kaadled just as the cases of the other gangsters are handled. The Pyvron ‘woman made a statement in the pres- ence ef Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson, Assistant District Attorney Milton U’Ren and George Duffy. “She repeated this statement time and again, Last night before the grand jury she changed her testi- mony.” ARBUCKLE CALLED FROM BED AT 1 O'CLOCK, Arbnckie, the last witness sum moned by the grand jury, during its five-hour session, was uroused from a sound sleep about 1 o'clock this morn- ing. Arbuckle, it is said, was in the grand jury room only three minutes. He is reported to have declined to make any statement’ further than to explain that his lawyers had advised him to keep silent. Mrs. Bambino Maud Delmont had previously testified concerning the party in Arbuckle’s rooms at a hotel bere on Labor day at which Miss Rappe was present. Other witnesses were heard. After Arbuckle left the grand jury room the jurors began to deliberate upon the testimony given. Behind closed doors the jurors argued, it is eaid, for half an hour, having ex cluded District Attorney Brady and his assistants. The conclusion then ‘was reached, it was announced, to de- fer action until further evidence could be presented. No date was sqt for the resumption of the inquiry. After the adjcurnment Clifford Cur. tis, foreman, said: “We have decided to continue the hearing to give District Attorney Brady the opportunity to secure cer- tain information which we desire, It was thought best not to vote on an in athe OE Pal Fi al ie ER al AS SE AB Sl Eid 2a dictment tonight MRS. DELMONT RECITES DETAILS 0! PARTY.” Mrs. Bambino Maud Delmont testi- fied in detail in the grand jury ses- sion regarding the occurrences at the party in which Miss Rappe is alleged to have received her fatal injuries. She had repeatedly knocked and Kicked at the closed door behind which were Arbuckle and Miss Rappe, she said, and finally compelled Ar- buckle to open it. ghe told of having attended the strick@n girl and of the girl's removal to the Wakefield, sani- tarlum from the hotel. Mrs. Jean Jameson, ‘one of the nurses who had attended Miss Rappe at the sanitarium, testified. that Miss pe had told her that Arbuckle had treated her roughly and that Ar buckle had said that h¢ had waited five years for the girl. At times Miss Rappe said she did not remember what happened in the room and at other times she accused Arbuckiec of hurting ber, Mrs. Jameson testified, Dr. William Ophuls, who performed the post-moriein upon Miss Rappe, and Ira Fortlouis and Al Semnacher, guests of the party, also testified. District Attorney Brady announced that he had summoned Miss Zey Prq- vost for an examination today regard- ing her testimony before the grand jury. THEATER OWNERS AWAIT HEARING. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13.—Mem- bers of the Motion Picture Theater Owners’ association of southern Cali- fornia, adopted a resolution favoring the withdrawal, until the charges against him were disproved, of all films in which “the name of Roscoe C. Arbuckle was featured, owing to the undesirable notoriety he has ob tained in connection with the death of Miss Virginia Rappe,” it was an- nounced today by Glenn Harper, sec retary of the organization. MONTREAL, Sept. 13.—A motion picture featuring “Fatty” Arbucklé has been cancelled by a local theater: WITNESS GRILLED BY PROSECUTION TODAY, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.—Miss Vay Provost, motion picture bathing girl, was questioned by District At- torney Brady today regarding testi- mony she gave before the grand jury in supposed confilét with mer other statements to the authorides con- cerning her interest in the hotel party where Miss Virginia Rappe, motion picture actress is alleged to have re- ceived the injuries from which she died. Simultaneously, Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle, motion picture com- edian, who is charged with murder- ing Miss Rappe, went before a coro ner's jury in the second day of the inquest into the actress’ death. District Attorney Brady said he was going to endeavor to determine tt Miss Provost, who is also known as Vey Pryron, was induced to commit perjury in her grand jury testimony last night. ‘This testimony differed widely with statements made to him self and Captain of Detectives Mathe- son, Brady said, Mrs. Bambino Maud Delmont, who brought the murder charge against Arbuckle, was the first witness at the inquest today. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13.—Roscoe (Patty) Arbuckle was dropped from the membership roll of the. Los An- geles Athletic club here last night, President William M. Garland said “it was the unanimous belief of the directors that such a step should be taken.” MADAM WHARTON. Royal Egyptian Clairvoyant and Palmist. Give Truthful Advice on All Affairs of Life. Office Hours 10 a. m. till 9 p. m. Located at 628 East Second Street You walk away with a brisker step after a cooling drink of Ko-Fan, that new drink from the Orient and tropics. Fatigue is banished, while that fascinating flavor lingers. |Order From Your Jobber | SAN JOSE, Cal., Sept. 13.—Ros- (Patty) Arbuckle, under ar- rest in San Francisco on a marder charge, played the part of the Pied Piper” to the children of Santa Clara, near here, where he lived years ago, according to a atement by his stepmother, Mrs, Mollie Arbuckle. Mrs. Arbuckle is a washerwoman and charwoman. Her husband died four years ago. “He was so big and good-natured and so full of fun that the children used to follow him around to watch his antics, Mrs. Arbuckle said at her Santa Clara home. “I knew nothing of Roscoe until | he was 12 years of age,” she said. “He was always good humored. He got his start in San Jose by sing- ing in the theaters. Then he went away, years ago, and I did not bear from him until about five years ago when he appeared in a San Jose theater. I spoke to him for a few minutes then, “Roscoe was always kind to me but he never offered to support me and I never expected him to. I do not feel it was his place to sup- port me If he is innocent I want to see m cleared. If he is guilty I want to see him punished to the limit.” According to Mrs. Arbuckle, Ros: Arbuckle is an uncle of Al St John, motion picture actor of Los He has @ brothgr,| Arthur in San Francisco, and an- . Harry Arbuckie, in she said husband was a hard workng n but some times lost his tem- she said, and during one of se fits of temper, he beat Ros coe severely WAS FORMERLY THEATER BARKER. LONG BEACH, Cal., Sept. 25.— scoe Arbuckle in 1908 was a bark er at a local theater on amusement pike at the beach here. He gradu- ated into a performe:, singing il- lustrated songs, doing breakneck falls and comedy stunts and was aided by a pony chorus, The man- New Show Again Today Continuous 1 to 11 P. M. Where They Serve a Show Up to the Queen’s Taste. TODAY VIOLA DANA « In a Regular Story of Way Down East STUFF’ He came to the farm down in Maine and was cured of the evils of city life. When her father told her there is the door, leave the farm forever, he came forward, for he was still a man, and de- fied her father, for she had done no wrong. Well, sec this picture. —NEXT— “Powder River, Boys!”’ Come and See _ “WESTERN NERVE’ —NEXT— A Two-Reel Comedy With the Famous Mack, Sennett Bathing Girls in All Their Glory. —NEXT— Pathe Review —NEXT— For the Love of Mike, Come Early. COMING “COURAGE” KEEP YOUR EYE ON THIS SPACE COMING “The Golden Trail” A JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD STORY COMING The Big Massive Spectacle “Sowing the Winds” ARBUCKLE’S STEPMOTHER A CHARWOMAN, AND NEVER GOT HELP FROM ‘FATTY’ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1921. Che Casper Daily Cribune death occurred during 192¢ and medi- cal science attributes this to the fact that the person did not receive the e recognized treatment for the disease as “If people understood no anti-toxin was given. tance of cooperating with the school ‘The vital statistics records for 1920 nurse they would try to give her full show that, covering the period. be- amistance in her undertakings. When tween April 1 and September 1, there the child is excluded from class rooms ‘ because he has a sote throat, head- ache, sore eyes, skin Jesions, remem. ber it is not personal with the nurse. It is just an attempt to prevent the epread of children’s contagious dis- cases and she is working only for the best interests of all concerned. In this manner Casper can take its right ful place as the leading city of the state In disease control.” ager, noticing @ romance growing between Minta Durfee, a chorus girl and Arbuckle, arranged for a stage wedding, August 5, 1908. The theatre changed hands later and Arbuckle and his wife went to les Angeles secking employment, which they found im a comedy mo- tion picture studio there. One of the studio scandals of that day was the wasteful hurling of pies rand exgs in comedy plzys, in which the pay of many participants was meager. treatment until the fiftn cay of finess and the other went seven days with- out proper medical treatment. Death came in ihe lone small pox case dur- ing the fourth day of illness or erup- tive stage. ‘The ratio of reduction in deaths among young children during the year 1921 frotn all causes shows a reduc- ready brought good results and that still greater results are possible of at- tainment. “One of the greatest undertakings of health authorities is the supervis- fon of the school child. The school nursé is now at work in Casper's schools trying to make it safe for your DOUGLAS . FAIRBANKS IN A SPECIAL RETURN ENGAGEMENT ONE OF HIS FINEST! > Missouri this year produced 3,642, 000 watermelons, sufficient to fill over 3.600 cara. —>——— SUPERVISION IS GREAT SUCCESS (Continued from Page 1) Acute intestinal infectior cases were traced in nearly every instance to either dirty milk or dirty water. It ig evident that there is marked im- Provement in 1921 over 1920 as the records show 25 death during the for- #Mmer year as against 10 in 1921 from this cause. In percentage this shows a 60 per cent saving in baby life. Prematurity and still birth shows to be the next greatest causo of death among infants. There is considerable room for improvement in this phase, in spite of the fact that the greatest number of these deaths are unavoid- able. Some of these deaths are known fo have been caused from latent in ‘ections of syphilis in one of the par- ente. ‘The records show that*one diphtheria “The Mollycoddle” Something Breezy, Full of Two- Fisted Red-Blooded Manhood LOTS OF ACTION, HEART-INTEREST AND SUSPENSE. —ALSO— BUSTER KEATON IN A RETURN SHOWING ' = The Scarecrow” TODAY ONLY MW JUNIORS— Little Nts Admission 40c A Bishop-Cass T heater BUCK JONES THE POPULAR ROUGH-RIDIN’,, HARD-FIGHTIN’ WESTERN STAR THAT MAKES YOU GRAB YOUR CHAIR ARMS AND HOLD YOUR BREATH —IN— "TO A FINS ‘A Siory of the Western Plains—Where Two-Fisted Ranchmen Battle to Stamp Out the Curse of the Old West. 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