Newspapers.com has added several more newspapers, including two San Francisco papers, the San Francisco Bulletin, and the San Francisco Journal, which, until now, required a visit to the Library of Congress. The Bulletin provides another point of view on the case of Virginia Rappe and Roscoe Arbuckle—as well as staff artist sketches and photographs not seen in other newspapers, including one of Arbuckle poring himself a stiff drink and chomping on a cigar.

The Bulletin’s publisher, R. A. Crothers wrote what has to be the most scathing editorial that saw Arbuckle as a murderer. His piece has the tone of what so many authors have associated with the papers of Arbuckle’s bête noire, William Randolph Hearst. But Hearst had nothing on the Bulletin when it came to putting the comedian in a harsh light. It also found other editorialists—those realists among the press agents and other motion picture professionals—who rightly predicted that Arbuckle’s career was effectively over within a few days of his arrest.

So, we have to take a step back from editing our work-in-progress to pore over this and other newspaper sources that heretofore haven’t appeared in the bibliographies of previous Arbuckle case narratives.