THE ARBUCKLE CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1921, Page 5

THE ARBUCKLE CASE.

MORE EVIDENCE REQUIRED. WITNESSES REVERSE STORIES. CHIEF WITNESS DISAPPEARS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrigtt. 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 j must be cleared up. | The prosecuting attorney an- | nounced that several women witnesses before the Grand Jury hail reversed their statements concerning what happened in the room where Miss Rappe received her injuries. The attorney declared 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 the Police Court charge of murder. Received Sept. 14, 9.15 p.m. New York, Sept. 13. The chief witness against Arbuckle has mysteriously disappeared. When the inquest was resumed Mrs. Delmont, who laid the irder complaint, failed to substantiate her first story. She now says that Arbuckle merely followed Miss Rappe into a bedroom and closed the door and did not drag her in. She described Miss 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 haltingly that she took a hypodermic before coming into Court.—Reuter Service.