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The Coroner chewed on his glasses.
The Arbuckle attorneys issued a statement: "Roscoe Arbuclde has always proved to be a fine, upstanding American citizen. He is innocent. We are certain that a decent penal system, interested only in justice, will sustain this fact. We will appeal to the conscience of America to withhold its judgment until the courts decide on a verdict We sit here with all the facts. Our client is innocent."
A San Francisco reporter with initiative went up to San Jose to interview Arbuckle's step-mother. She was a charwoman. She spoke nostalgically of Roscoe as a youth. "Everybody loved him. He could make anyone laugh. The children followed him around as if he were the Pied Piper. He was much loved. He didn't give me money but only because I wouldn't take any. He offered it to me."
In answer to a forthright question about girls she said, "The girls were never interested in him. He was always chubby, you know. I don't think he cared much for girls either until he grew up."
She said proudly, "You know his uncle is Al St. John, that well-known Hollywood movie actor."
Asked if she'd testify, she said, "If they want me, I certainly will. He was always a good boy and the world ought to know it."
The New York press, meanwhile, converged on 25 W. 51 Street, where Irving Lehrman, the dead girl's fiance, was living.
Wearing a silk robe over a sport shirt and trousers, he greeted the press in a beautifully furnished, high-ceiling apartment. He said, "I've been all broken up. Haven't slept since it happened. I requested that burial be in Los Angeles because she loved the town so much and I want her near me." He added, too, "Arbuckle is guilty. I hate him and if I ever see him I'll kill him. My baby died game like a real woman. She fought him until she lay dying. He outraged her, and you know she told her nurse not to tell me about it because she didn't want me to know. I loved her very much. You know, we were engaged. You know,
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