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llanscndoboT Ytakes standinjwl 19COcli• J I frin Flvnn easeLOS ANGELES. W. Gazing | P« squarely and severely at movie aftli01star Errol Flynn. 17 year old Betty Hansen told a jury Thursday he disrobed her and was intimate with her in an upstairs bedroom I st following a dinner party at a Bel d Air home last Sept. 27. piThe Blonde Lincolnf Neb., school- tvgirl, the state’s first major wit- Hf ness in Flynn’s trial on three I r. counts of statutory rape involving I g| her and another girl, gave her testimony unhesitatingly. Flynn, por- pi trayer of romantic movie roles, OI watched her closely, chin in hand. wBetty said the act occurred at p, the home of Fred McEvoy, former rf British sportsman, after a dinner | u party for six. Before dinner, shelaid, Flynn gave her a drink of j* * * * - ~ * h4I»ciquor she could not identify. She ( laid she sat on his lap a while t in a sunroom outside the livingroom.“At dinner, I ate a little soup j « *nd went back to the sunroom,” the girl told the. superior court jury of nine women and three men, ^ “Then I went back, had some des- 8 sort and returned to the gunroom. j( “The defendant”—as she referred to Flynn thruout her testi- , mojiy—“came out and told me I wasn’t feeling well. He said he’d ) take me upstairs where I could • lie down. She said they were in ; the room about a half hour. IBetty began her testimony by « saying she turned 17 last Sept. 21 *and that she had never been mar- «ried. -iShe was preceded on the witnessstand by her older sister, Mrs. Patricia Marsden, who testified Betty was born at Lincoln, Neb.Mrs. Marsden said that last Sept. 14, while Betty was residing with her here, they had a dispute and Betty left the house.In two other counts against Flynn, the state alleges statutory rape offenses against Peggy I^arue (J Satterlee, 16, Hollywood enter- n tainer, on the actor s 75-toot yacht Sirocco on Aug. 3, 194L. ^_-—sc
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Lincoln Evening State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Thu, Jan 14, 1943
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