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Locksmith OnWitness StandIn Flynn CasemoirerrLOS ANGELES, Feb. 1—(INS)—As the trial nudged into its fourth week, the state today completed its evidence charging screen star Errol Flynn with attacking two teen age girls.Last witness in the prosecution’srebuttal was C. D. Pope, Los Angeles county locksmith who testified for more than an hour concerning the condition of the lock cn the door to the ‘‘blue room” of the Fred McEvoy mansion. It was in this room Betty Hansen 17, of Lincoln, chatged she was attacked by Flynn last September 27.With the door resting against a counsel table, Pope testified the lock had been filed, but he could give no opinion when it had been done.^ Following Pope's testimony, Chief Defense Counsel Jerry Gies-ler planned to call “all the experts I can find” to clear up, if possible, when and why the lock was filed.Lock Out of Order.Miss Hansen testified that after Flynn led her to the bedroom of the Bel-Air hmm she “heard a click” which she thought was the lock. Defense witnesses countered that the lock had been inoperative for many months.Despite the delay in concluding the case, brought about by implication that the lock had been altered so it would not work, it was believed that the case would reach the jury Thursday, after an expected two days of argument byopposing counsel.Satterlee Testimony Completed.Both defense and prosecution, it was understood, have completed testimony in relation to the claim of Peggy LaRue Satterlee, 16, that she was twice attacked aboard Flynn’s yacht in 1941, with the possible exception of brief witnesses to tie in any remaining loose ends in their respective ,cases.di:beth:deenClasbship;dibeI(CIVcla$ir
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Lincoln Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Mon, Feb 01, 1943
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