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great show of strength and sabre rattling, attempted to impeach Zey Prevon. It was a move that had to be made. Nothing ever did come of it.
While the Prevon matter was getting all the trial attention, McNab began stewing over the door with the fingerprints. The D.A.'s office constantly made parenthetic references to it whenever there was any mention of Arbuckle and Virginia Rappe in the bedroom together.
It gave an unpretty picture of the gross, sex-starved fat man clutching the wraith of a girl and dragging her back into the bedroom while she struggled courageously, grabbing at the door and trying to fight her way out of the I room.
McNab didn't like it at all. So once and for all he brought in Adolph Jaci, former fingerprint expert of the San Francisco police, and Milton Carlson of the Los Angeles police, to take the stand for the defense. They testified (McNab said "conclusively") that the fingerprints on the door proved nothing at all. They both said that the prints were so smudged they could have been anyone's prints. They also said it was possible to forge prints on a door. Jaci demonstrated how it could be done.
McNab then told the bench that he hoped this once and for all would stop the asides and references of the D.A.'s office to the mysterious door prints. He said the i whole rotten business was a myth and an underhanded attempt to put his client in a bad light.
Brady said McNab was tilting at windmills and complaining about something that had been established and recorded and nothing more could be done about it.
But McNab had made a good point, especially by using ' one of San Francisco's finest to corroborate Arbuckle's li testimony.
On the 17th day of the second trial, with everyone more confused than ever, Gavin McNab asked the court's permission to leave San Francisco for a few days. He
' had business in the Nevada State Supreme Court, where he would represent Mary Pickford in a contested suit over
) a recent divorce.
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