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the hole. Headlines screamed that the Postmaster General of the United States, Will Hays, would resign with the President's permission to become the police figure of the motion picture industry. Hays was to be to movies what Kenesaw Mountain Landis was to baseball. Landis, too, was brought in after a terrible scandal had hit the sport
Hays, a formidable figure, was a bold stroke for morality and a public relations gesture of sheer genius. Though Hays never mentioned Roscoe Arbuckle in a public statement, the impression was that if there were any bad boys connected with pictures, Hays would do the spanking and the law could look the other way. Of course, Hays was to be a preventive against trouble too, but in Arbuckle's case it was too late for that.
After the Arbuckle trials were all over, there was feeling in the industry that the Hays appointment had been helpful to him. It put a reflection of "from now on I'll be a good boy" over the proceedings.
The trial opened with plenty of fireworks. Friedman picked up on a fact he had touched only lightly in trial one: "Why was he in pajamas?"
Arbuckle thought fast on the stand and said enigmatically, "I had to wear pajamas and robe because I had a serious accident"
To your clothes or to your person?" asked Friedman.
"That's all I can say," answered Arbuckle, "I had a serious accident."
Friedman rephrased the question, and McNab accused him of badgering his client. After a great deal of legal name-calling, Arbuckle never did satisfactorily explain his reason for wearing pajamas or what the serious accident was. It did, however, conjure up all sorts of possibilities for the jury— both favorable and unfavorable to Arbuckle.
Friedman or Brady had been smart enough to confiscate his pajamas and wave them around the courtroom like some kind of wicked sex symbol. The McNab forces didn't like that at all.
Alice Blake, a witness for the prosecution in the first
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