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s).Betty's mothersurprised hut not displeased“They let him go!!! What do you mean? Why? Why?”Mrs. Anna Hansen, mother ofBetty, was surprised Saturdaywhen she learned of Errol Flynn s acquittal. But she was definitely not displeased with the verdict.Caught in a sudden hysteria, she laughed laughed loud, long and raucously. “Oh, well, nobody got hurt,” she repeated over and over.Then she reacted sagely, “Money talks. If he had been a poor fellow like us. it would have been different. Anyway, the court getsall that money.”“It looks like nobody is guilty anymore,” she laughed. “He (Flynn) had money and knew that all the time. If you get in Dutch and you got nfoney, you would go free too. That’s what’s the matter with the world today no more Christianity and all politics.”Mrs. Hansen termed the scene at the MvEvoy mansion as just a wild party and said, “He’ll learn to spike for somebody else after this ”“That case didn’t bother me at all.” emphasized Betty’s mother. But she hinted that it must have bothered her neighbors somewhat from all of the nuisances and razzing” she had been subjectedto.The woman says she has no hard feelings toward Flynn, but still insists that Betty is ‘the cutest little thing you ever saw.”“She is a clean little Christian girl,” averred the mother. “She was just trapped. He had to give her drinks to get her. If she had not been a cute, clean little girl he wouldn’t have had anything to do with her.”Mrs. Hansen said she sawFlyinn’s last movie when it was here a short time ago, and that she liked it very much. Betty, she said, had written her nothing about the case and that she has heard from the younger daughter only thru a sister she went to visit in California.Btty, said the mother, is coming home after the trial, but she wasn’t sure just when she will be here.“Oh, well, nobody got hurt,” reiterated Mrs. Hansen, In “closing” the case. “Why shouldn’t he go free!”
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Lincoln Evening State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Feb 06, 1943
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