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FLYNN TO TAKE WITNESS STANDStar Due To Testify Today On Girls’ Attack ChargeBy The AMocisted Fr*»»-LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27—Today is the day the courtroom-and-cor-ridor-crowding cluster of Errol Flynn film fans have been waiting for—the debonair star himself Is scheduled to take the witness stand at his trial on statutory rape charges.Defense Attorney Jerry Glesler said vaguely he has several other witnesses, but Flynn probably will go on the stand in the afternoon.”Eight persons testified at the second day of the defense inning yesterday. The day's star performer was suave, neat mustached Fred James Aloysius McEvoy, oil man and part-time actor, who declared that at no time during the party in his fashionable Bel-Air home last Sept. 27 did Flynn go upstairs.Says Flynn Wit On PorchBetty Hansen, 17, of Lincoln, Neb., has testified that after dinner the screen actor took her upstairs to a bedroom, the blue room, disrobed her and was intimate with her.But McEvoy told the superior court jury of nine women and three men that during this time he and Flynn were on a sun porch drinking frappes.He said he did not see the actor kiss Miss Hansen or see any demonstration of affection between them.McEvoy said the upstairs blue room” is his bedroom and that after the party the bed appeared undisturbed.Miss Jean Longworth, 18, blonde Hollywood night club entertainer, testified she knew Peggy La Rue Satteriee, 16, the other complaining witness, who alleges Flynn was twice intimate with her aboard his yacht during a cruise to Catalina in August, 1941.Other Testimony CitedDefense Attorney Jerry Giesler asked Miss Longworth:“Did you once see Peggy Satteriee at the night club and did she say: ‘My mother once took me to court claiming he had attacked me, but I did not want her to. because it was not true’?”“Yes, said the attractive witness.On Monday an army corporal, a drugstore waitress, a sandwich •tand “car hop” ond others testified:THAT no disturbance, scuffling or yells were heard on Flynn’s yacht, the Sirocco, the night 16-year-old Peggy La Rue Satteriee says the movie hero violated her.THAT the other complaining witness. Betty Hansen, 17, of Lincoln, Neb., had declared she was going to meet Flynn and “get into pictures that way.” Betty herself, on the witness stand, denied having movie ambitions. . . .THAT Betty, who testified the actor seduced her in an alcove
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East Liverpool Review
East Liverpool, Ohio, US
Wed, Jan 27, 1943
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