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Maybe she really didn't hate ArBuckle.
Maybe she wanted to revenge herself on Irving Lehrman, her fiance.
Maybe the mood of the party had inflamed her passions.
Maybe the alcohol had dazed her so that she didn't know what she was doing.
Maybe she had some kind of plan that could make Arbuckle look foolish.
Or maybe any number of other things. No witness could give a satisfactory, logical explanation. No one could tell what was going on in Virginia's mind.
The mystery is deepened further by the fact that, for twenty minutes after she entered the bedroom with Arbuckle, there was no sound of struggle, no outcry, no sign of any land of resistance.
If there had been, could the people outside with the music and the noise have heard it? The considered opinion was that they could. Sound tests were made. Small sounds could be heard outside. And, in fact, when Virginia did make an outcry everyone heard it.
What happened behind the locked door of Room 1221 in the St. Francis Hotel? Well probably never know exactly. Of the two people in the room, one was dead four days later. And during the four days of life left to her she was in agonizing pain. However she did tell nurse Jeanne Jamison that Arbuckle had raped her.
Arbuckle changed his story four times. Was he lying or incapable of remembering because of alcohol?
After all the testimony and conjecture, the most sane explanation of what happened was probably this: Virginia was groggy from drink and probably remonstrated feebly on the bed where she was put. She had to urinate very badly and therefore had a distended bladder. Arbuckle undressed her and had sexual intercourse with her. During this intercourse, by force or roughness, Virginia's bladder was broken. She then screamed in agony, "I'm dying!" That was heard by members of the party and accounted for their first efforts to enter the room.
There is just one fault with this account of what prob
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