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_U\rO( \ SUNDAY JOI. hhmh(right) chats with his friends, Buster Wiles (left) and Hel- 1mert Elhngwood (center) in the courtroom as the jury Considers ihis caso. IMen on Flynn jury 'didn't count’as future of film idol decided€«m*|mI«4 from l*f«MNine conscientious housewivesacquitted Errol Flynn of statu* tory rape charges Saturday leaving him free to resume his placeas one of Hollywood's reigningmovie stars.There were three men on the jury, too, but they didn’t count. The ladies, all comfortably married, went into a huddle and considered all the intimate medical testimony concerning the physical condition of Betty Hansen, 17, ofLincoln, and Peggy Satterlee, 16,after their evenings with Flynn.“Couldn’t Have Harmed Them.’*“And we decided,” said Mrs. Ruby Anderson, the foreman, “that Mr. Flynn could not possibly have harmed these girls. Then we told the men, delicately of course, and they agreed with us.” That was that, and the jubilant Flynn struggled from the courthouse, like a reluctant Pied Piper, with a swarm of hia feminine admirers clutching at his pinstriped coat taila, tugging on his lapels and fighting among themselves for the privilege of touching them.At Sacramento, Miss Hatterlee said she thought the acquittal of Flynn was “horrible.”“I hate Flynn more than anybody else ui all the world. Maybe I’m better off the way it turned out. but I didn’t want it this way.”Miss Satterlec said she was go-IIing to see her mother at Applegate, a little mountain community 50 miles east of Sacramento, and rest up from the “awful strain” of the trial.There was no word from Miss Hansen, the movie struck waitress who wanted to he a movie star, after the verdict. She remained In custody of juvenile court which is expected soon to send her home to Nebraska.lt;YIhICFVRE*Miss Satterlee, 16 year old hot spot show girl, was in Sacramentoenroute to the home of her parents in a mountain village when she heard the news. Shewept.FvefI 1 1“KneW They’d Acquit Him ”i“I knew those women on the | jury would acquit him,” she cried, dabbling at her eyes. ‘They sat * there and just looked at him adoringly, just like he was their son. or something. Here I am just I two days from 17, and I feel like a broken old woman.”The Warner brothers. Jack and Harry, were the boys who received the verdict with real joy. Flynn, their multi-million dollarmovie property, was good as newr. And even better.They rushed completion of his two last pictures m hope of getting them into theaters everywhere while the public still was interested in hia joust with theI law.]IIiiit11II*4
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Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Feb 07, 1943
Page 4
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