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Errol Flvnn Trial(Continued from Pago One)the jury box on preemptory challenges by the state. The third was a member of the panel from which the Flynn jury was drawn, but was not called in the actor s trial.“Is For Errol.’*The latter, Mrs. Harriet R. Ponder, swore that Miss Elaine Forbes, secretary to a radio network executive, expressed a de- sar termination to convict Flynn and icitithat Mrs. Lorene Boehm, wife of . befan industrial engineer, declared, cer I am for Errol Flynn in a big 1Cbee Jo YMoway.” ‘ theMrs. Ponder asserted that Miss Ra Forbes had stated two weeks be- ber fore Christmas that she “had to j ind get on the Flynn jury.” ingHer affidavit quotes Miss Forbes the as expressing similar sentiments 1 J “in a vehement manner and as | ask saying, “If we get on the Flynn jury we will fix him, won t we,Mrs. Ponder?”Before Flynn came to trial, Mrs. Ponder declared, “Mrs. Boehm remarked, “I am for Errol Flynn in | chia big way/’ beIn the two other affidavits, Mrs. poi Emily S. Blue and Mrs. Gussie tht Rowe declared that during selec- ablt; tion of the jury they heard Miss I otl Forbes say: “Just must get on Wc that Flynn jury. I don’t know tht what I’ll do if I don’t get on thatingleysuepolnoljury.” grracoailththThey added that Miss Forbes be asserted she would acquit the ' rnlt; actor, contrary to her attitude as th related in Mrs. Ponder’s affidavit, and that the juror had given illness as an excuse for three weeks th to avoid jury duty so that she Cf would be available when the Flynn case was called.The mistrial motion came during testimony by Miss Lynne Boyer, honey blond Hollywood singer. She had wept and twisted Eft her handkerchief to ribbons while ) telling of a party at a Bel Air house last Sept. 27 during which the state charges Flynn ravished 17-year-old Betty Hansen in an ^ upstairs bedroom. I 1The actor is charged on two other counts with acts of intimacy during a week-end cruise on his yacht Sirocco in August, 1941, with Miss Peggy La Rue Satter-lee, 16-year-old Hollywood entertainer. Testimony concerning the , latter charges had not yet been j introduced.Vi']DcWAtDtw!of* *
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Lincoln Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Jan 16, 1943
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