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Betty HansenAgain ClaimsNo Resistance.. .To Flynn's AdvancesLOS ANGELES, Jan. 15—(AP)— Betty Hansen, 17-year-old former Lincoln, schoolgirl, reiterated today at the trial of movie actor Errol Flynn on statutory rape charges that she made noeffort to dissuade him from amorous advances.“Did you resist Flynn’s attempt to be intimate with you in any J way?” Deputy District Attorney Thomas Cochran asked on redirect examination.She had testified earlier the alleged offense occurred in the bedroom of a friend of Flynn at Bel-Air,“No,” Miss Hansen replied, “Idid not.”“Did you push him, or shove him, or ask him not to do it?”“No, sir.”Lincoln Girl Calm.She was calm, in contrast to her sobbing reaction under cross-examination yesterday. She had changed her sweater for a forest green sports shirt as she took the stand for further questioning by Defense Attorney Jerry Geisler.Giesler read from a transcript of her testimony before the grand jury, then asked her if she told the jury that on two occasions she had been guilty of acts of perversion.“I did,” she replied.“Do you hope not to be prosecuted for that crime?”“Yes.”“The man involved in that crime was convicted?”“Yes.”“You refused to testify against him on grounds that it might incriminate you?”“Yes.”She denied, however, that she had been promised immunity by becoming a prosecution witness.Flynn sat impassively watching Sr her.A1nilCCIAMC CMTCDit
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Lincoln Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Fri, Jan 15, 1943
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