[UA] A reading suggestion, and two totally unrelated question s

[John Fiala]

> >  Sadly, the book also keeps alive the myth that Fatty Arbuckle
> >killed Virginia Rappe, but other than that it's top-notch.
> 
> I've read about this myself recently, in a couple of sources, 
> but usually
> it's presented as a maybe-he-did-and-maybe-he-didn't sort of thing.
> (Granted, usually the authors are kind of pushing the juicier 
> maybe-he-did
> end.)  Are there elements of the story, perhaps usually left 
> out or glossed
> over in the sensationalized accounts, that make it very likely that
> Arbuckle was innocent?

	Arbuckle himself was pretty darn soused, and I doubt he ever really
remembered what was going on. :)  However, in 'An Underground Education', I
read something interesting:  apparently the woman had been to the same
hospital where the autopsy was done three days before for surgery, and thus
the possiblity of complications from it leading to her death come to mind.
The book presented an interesting case in Fatty's favor, but I don't
remember it right now.  If people are truely interested, I can grab it off
the shelf to bring to work tomorrow.

-john fiala  {jcfiala at cssltd.com|jcfiala at earthlink.net}
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