"Fatty" Arbuckle Trials (1921-22)
The
"Fatty" Arbuckle Scandal The Trials
http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa021800d.htm
The first Arbuckle trial began in November 1921 and charged Arbuckle
with manslaughter. The trial was thorough and Arbuckle took the stand
to
share his side of the story. The jury was hung with a 10 to 2 vote for
acquittal.
Infoplease.com
Almanac's Bio on "Fatty" Arbuckle
http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0759352.html
(Roscoe Arbuckle)
actor, director
Born: 3/24/1877
Birthplace: Smith Center, Kansas
Profile of An
American
Scandal
http://www.phenry.org/text/arbuckle.txt
Biography,
Bibliography,
Essays & Links
http://www.silent-movies.com/Arbucklemania/
One of the geniuses of the silent cinema,
Roscoe Arbuckle is also the least understood.
Get to know him here...
Filmography
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Arbuckle,+Roscoe+%27Fatty%27
The Trial of Fatty
Arbuckle
http://www.ralphmag.org/fatty.html
On September 17 Roscoe Arbuckle was arraigned in San Francisco charged
with the rape and murder of Virginia Rappe. The legendary producer,
Adolph
Zukor (who footed the legal bill) tried to bring in the great trial
lawyer,
Earl Rogers, father of Adela, but Rogers was in ill health and couldn't
take the case.
Harry Thaw Case
The
Trial of the Century
www.crimelibrary.com/classics/white/9.htm
Even though the twentieth century had only begun, newspapers dubbed
Henry K. Thaw’s murder trial “The Trial of the Century.”
Muckrakers
dug up all sorts of stories about White’s lascivious behavior with
young
women. Competing papers found young girls that insisted White was a
perfect
gentleman. The famous moralist Anthony Comstock firmly sided with Thaw,
saying that America would be better off with more men like Thaw.
President Roosevelt followed the case carefully.
Famous
trials force society to face its ills
http://www.dailyherald.com/special/crossingcenturies/2a/6rest.asp
A jostling mob of journalists swarmed the courthouse. Photographers
snapped away. This murder trial would be "reported to the ends of the
civilized
globe," one paper said. The defendant was a millionaire. The
motive
was jealous rage. The crime was bloody. This was the Trial of the
Century - and it was only 1907.
Evelyn Nesbit
with
tiger skin postcard
http://www.sfnorthbeach.com/ann/ann11.jpg
Evelyn
Nesbit
with polar bear skin postcard
http://www.monmouth.com/~mconner/evelyn.jpg
Chapter
One
of E.L. Doctorow's "Ragtime"
http://members.aol.com/wamozart92/chapter1.html
"Mother's Younger Brother was in love with Evelyn Nesbit. He had
closely
followed the scandal surrounding her name and had begun to reason that
the death of her lover Stanford White and the imprisonment of her
husband
Harry K."
Stanford
White and Friends Have a Big Night Out
http://cgi1.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/5759/piegirl/piedex.html
Evelyn Nesbit
http://evelynnesbit.com/
As a sixteen year old girl, model, actress and Gibson Girl Evelyn
Nesbit
was debauched by prominent New York architect, Stanford White. On June
25, 1906, White paid for taking Evelyn's virginity when her new
husband,
the wild millionaire Harry K. Thaw, took White's life on the rooftop
garden
of Madison Square Garden.
More on Stanford
White
http://www.lihistory.com/6/hs618a.
Thaw's two trials gave ample opportunity to savor the exposure of the
``satin-lined sins of the rich.'' The first trial ended in a hung jury.
At the second one, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity and
was
committed to a mental institution -- from which he later escaped. (He
was
recaptured in Canada, pronounced sane in 1915 but was recommitted after
he horsewhipped a teenaged boy.)
From
PBS: The
Uprising of 1741
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode1/topic3/e1_t3_s3-up.html
"During the trial, the judge spoke with Mary Burton, a white indentured
servant. Even though Mary's stories were full of contradictions, she
told
the government what they wanted to hear: that the fires were part of a
"Negro plot." (To encourage her to testify, the government promised to
free her from her indenture.)" Includes a Video Clip (QuickTime)
Photo:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/9912/veseyprosser.html
The New-York
Conspiracy,
or a history of theNegro plot (Excerpt)
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/895.htm
"The parties accused of the conspiracy were numerous, and business
by
degrees multiplied so fast upon the grand jury, which bore the burthen
of this inquiry, that there would have been an immediate necessity for
others to have lent a helping hand in taking examinations from the
beginning,
if the judges had not found it expedient to examine the persons
accused,
upon their first taking into custody, whereby it seemed most likely the
truth would bolt out, before they had time to cool, or opportunity of
discoursing
in the jail with their confederates, who were before committed."
The
Rise of Slavery
http://www.lihistory.com/3/hs313a.htm
"Thirteen
black men burned to death at the stake. Seventeen black men hanged. Two
white men and two white women also hanged. All thirty-four were
executed
in New York City between May 11 and August 29, 1741, as part of the
episode
early New Yorkers called the ``Great Negro Plot,'' or the ``New York
Conspiracy.''
"
Photo: The Granger Collection
19th Century engraving depicts the execution of a
slave in 1747 following rumors of a conspiracy in New York City. Below,
an illustration shows Africans packed into a cargo hold of a ship. The
space shown is only 3 feet, 3 inches high
[PDF] These
Enemies of their Slaves in 18th Cent
www.nnp.org/project/ABAFP/6.3.pdf
Complete with Tables and Notes
THE
NEW YORK STATE FREEDOM TRAIL
The
(New York) Negro Law (excerpts)
"The
Negro
Law of 1740 was enacted in the colony of New York as a consequence
of an uprising in 1712 in which African-Americans appeared in arms."
The
Trial of Caesar (Vaarck's) and Prince (Auboyneau's) (excerpts)
"Caesar and
Prince
were arraigned on two indictments on April 24, 1741: the one for their
entering the dwelling house of Robert Hogg, of this city, merchant, on
the first day of March then last past, with intent then and there to
commit
some felony;.... The other for their entering the dwelling house of
Abraham
Meyers Cohen in this city, merchant, on the first day of March with
intent
then and there to commit some felony:.... To each of these indictments
they pleaded not guilty."
The
Trial of John Hughson, Sarah his wife, and Sarah his daughter.
(excerpts)
"John
Hughson,
Sarah, and his daughter Sarah on the indictment on June 4,1741; for the
coaxing and counseling the negro Cufee, to burn Mr. Philipe's
storehouse.
To the indictments they all pleaded not guilty."
COMMISSION REPORT: HISTORIC BACKGROUND
"In the alleged "Negro Plot" of 1741, thirty-two black
men were executed in lower Manhattan for allegedly plotting to
overthrow
the government. Thirteen were burned at the stake and eighteen hanged
in
the vicinity of New York’s City Hall Park. So intent are local
authorities
to make examples of the convicted men that their bodies are left
hanging
on public display for several days and weeks. Slave unrest occurred
upstate
as well as in New York City. Several blacks in Kingston, New York, were
charged with conspiring to burn down the city in the Slave Conspiracy
of
1775."
http://users.erols.com/bcccsbs/nylaw.htm
http://users.erols.com/bcccsbs/caesar.htm
http://users.erols.com/bcccsbs/hughson.htm
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