Fatty Arbuckle at the St. Francis

A jury cleared him and apologized, and six days later he was banned from film.

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Roscoe Arbuckle with his lawyers, trial of 1921 · Unknown photographer, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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The third jury was out for about five minutes, and it found Roscoe Arbuckle not guilty. That was on the twelfth of April 1922. He was acquitted of manslaughter in the death of Virginia Rappe. The statement read out in the jury's name began: "Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe Arbuckle. We feel that a great injustice has been done him." It had started on Labor Day 1921, at a party in rooms he took at this hotel.

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