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ERROL FLYNNActor On StandIFN• IftfDenies YachtingMTrip Episodesnr\Ma...Was At Wheel—NotIn Peggy's Cabinft*LOS ANGELES. Jan 29—lt;AP ^ Handsome Erroi Flynn was *'icalled back to the witness stand today to deny that he was inti--mate with 17-yea--old Betty Han- ™sen fof Lincoln, Neb.}—the ^tand ***lt;Mtn»c0.where yesterday he solemnly denied violating 18-year-old PeggLa Rue Statterlee.The dapper screen star, teettly-ing at his trial on statutory rape ctarges, yesterday told the jury Puand a breathless roomful of Flynn j — fans it was not true that he was Clt;guilty of misconduct with Miss JJ*Satterlee aboard his yacht offCatalina Island one night ins (August, 1941. nor. was be inti- — mate with her the next dayen route back to the mainland.On the Saturday night when»Miss Satterlee alleges he entered! her stateroom and made love to »« her. Flynn declares, he went to! bed in his own quarters soon after f the party of four had returnee from shore. He dented he went to her cabin.Defeme Attcmey Jerry Geisier ^ asked: — ; *‘Did you have any act of sexual intercourse with her?” — “I did not/* the actor deciareajemphatically. ; —“Did %ht say, ‘I’m J. B.—jailbait* and did you say you wouldbe willing to take your chances on that?** IMikes Dental.1 *aid no such thing then or! any other time/’On the return trip next day—i when. Miss Satterlee testified, Flynn invited her below deck to I see the moon through a porthole- tnand then again violated her—jstcFlynn said he was away from the tv wheel only once or twice. These Th absences, he said, were for only j cit about five minute* each. j ric“Did you at any time on the j an way back from Catalina have an I pr act of sexual relations with Miss! bo Satterlee?** his attorney asked, i of Miss Satterlee had been invited I ne on the cruise, Flynn said, to be! rru photographed with him in fishing* pr pictures for a national magazine.!Flynn's testimony included a to description of a telephone conver- al sat ion he said he had with Miss'd* Satterlee the day after the cruise ! U*“Ton’ll Find Oat.** hi**I said: Look. I might just as; well come to the point. Peggybeheright away. I have just oeen told!0?otby my business manager in a rcundabout way that you have s been down to the district attor- a*ney’s office and made a complaint! about me that you have been mis-j ** treated. Why did you go down P*there? You know you were treated *very decently aboard the boat*/* j ] **She said: You will find out.*4#1 asked: Can’t you tell meanything about this? What's the Idea? She said: ‘You will findout’.**The actor denied that he told anyone on the cruise. This girl attacked me last night/’ or saidpxtr*“she bit or kicked me/*Earlier, Jean Long worth, at-lt;n25mmajscitractive blonde dancer, was recalled by the prosecution. She had I olt; testified, in effect, that Miss Sat- »* ter lee had declared Flynn hadnot been intimate with her. I “BILLSrto*a
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Lincoln Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Thu, Jan 28, 1943
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