 On New Years Day 1924, Edna Purviance (qv) was at a party with  oil tycoon Courtland Dines and Mabel Normand (qv) when Normands  chauffeur, "defending Mabel Normands honor" shot Dines with a gun  owned by Mabel Normand. Dines refused to testify at the trial where  the chauffeur (Horrace Greer, who was an escapee from a chain gang  living under an assumed name) was found not guilty. As a result of  Purviances arms