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Show DENIES ILLNESS M OF MISS RAPPE j : Had Never Seen Actress in ' j; Pain, Woman Testifies f I in Arbuckle Trial IH SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 28. Coun- Ufl I ri made a determined effort toil H get nil tho loose ends of evidence out HBaH i.r the way in the second trial of Ros- J I ' arbuckle on a charge m n- EB iiughtotr growing our. of the death MW oi Mlu Virginia Rappe. When to- BH day'i sessions opened it appeared the H effort might tie successful P J The last Itneaa frlday was Mrs H i atherlne Pox of Chicago, who testi- HHsbI id she ha i known Miss Rappe since liildhood and that she had lived with IH lier at different periods. Mrs. Fox MflflJ was called by the prosecution to re BHjJ 'ute testimony introduced by the de-K de-K a tense that Miss Rappe had had a blad- LH der disorder, which caused her at HH times to faint, shriek with pain and RHl nar her clothes. Mrs. t ox said she HgfH had never seen Miss Rappe ill or in BjH The prosecution charges that Mi?s M Rappe died ac a n lull of a bladder HebBbT rupture aused when Ar'nieklo attael:- KH od her in his rooirui at the Si Francis H hotel on September 0 last. The dc- H fense contends Miss Rappe died as a fH i esult of chronic bladder trouble. II CLOSED CASE TWICE. BfB The defense went through the pro- Hsl "dure of closing its case twlco Fri- Hv ' l ormal announcement won ft. A -''' td( at ihe close of the tstimony P ", Ir. George Franklin Shiels, medl- V Qal expert, a few moments after the I as "in " A lew moments later, at the suggestion of the court that a 'dl-t 'dl-t connection" be. established, if JO Bible, between certain acts of Mis Virginia Rappe indicating severe Illness, Ill-ness, and the bladder injuries which esulted in her death, the defense reopened re-opened its case. Dr. Shiels was re-lalled re-lalled and testified that such acts might be connected with a chronic .'bo r ' implairit, but added under ross examination that they also might ie caused by ailments In other organs; or-gans; JMI KI I Dili 01 III. The defense called as Its last wit-eus wit-eus Milton t U'Ren, assistant disr Lrict attorney, who has taken n lead-; g part in the prosecution- He wis sked regarding his know ledge of ccr-iln ccr-iln finger prints found on a door of i Lie '. s bcflronin in the liotel TV prosoi ut;')n contend that the fingerprints finger-prints were made h Arbuckle and MLss Rappe while she was struggling j I e$ ipe from him. Defense expert stimony has charac-.ci ized the prlitsj S ' as a fake." August Vollnicr. c hief of police of I BorJtelcy. Cal., and president of the International Association of Eolico Chiefl testified as a prosecution rin- r print expert that certain prints "u Ihe door appeared to have bean iriade Bj a "female hand or a small male hand.' There were certain b..r i. l ri .tics in tlu-S" mints whir h tft. orrespond to the police prints of Miss lleppe's fingertips, he said. The prints wore taken from Miss Rappe WITNESS IN ASYLUM Ilarrj M. Caldwell, finger p.Aint expert ex-pert o.' Oakland, Cal., testified that he pplie exemplars of the Rappe and Arbuckle finger tips appeared to be the same as those on the door. He "not absolutely positive" that the' ivere the same, however. Dr. Frederick P. Clark, superintend- nt of the state hospital at Stockton, Cal.; testified that Mrs. Kate Rren-nan. Rren-nan. a defense witness, was an in-niati in-niati if the hospital during a period in whii h Miss Iirennan lectifj,-.,! tj, she lived In San Francisco. The pros-ocutlon pros-ocutlon is endeavoring to have 'Jic1 lestimony of Mrs. Brennan stricken g out on the ground that she was ad- ud'god Insahe In 1909 and the Judic al still stands. A motion eatlicr I he day to have Mrs. Brennau's astimqny Impeached was denied, with :.e iMKlerslantline Mint it mic't be renewed on new grounds. |