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your copy, rrice id cents.FLYNN CASE VERDICTIS STILL DAYS AWAYLOS ANGELES, Jan. 30—(INS) —The prospect of an early verdict in the trial of Errol Flynn on the attack charges of two teen-age girls dimmed appreciably today as the court went into week-end re-cess with the state’s rebuttal testimony to the screen star's defense junfinished. As the third week of the trial came to a close, the prosecution was midway in an attempt to determine the actual status of a bolt lock on the door of the “Blue room” in which blonde Betty Hanson, 17, claimed she was attacked by the tall and tanned hero of adventure films.Already the state had called C. H. Cleminshaw, acting director of the Los Angeles observatory, to establish the position of the moon on the August, 1941, night that! Peggy Larue Satterlee, 16, said Flynn ravished her a second time after luring her below decks on his yacht with the promise of “seeing the moon through a porthole.”Call More Witnesses.In view of further rebuttal testimony and sur-rebuttal witnesses whom Chief Defense Counsel Jerry Giesler said he would call, it was doubtful whether Superior Judge Still could complete his instructions and allow the jury to begin deliberations before Wednesday or Thursday of next week.Deputy District Attorneys Hopkins and Cochrane brought into court the door from the personal bedroom of Fred McEvoy, where Miss Hansen said she was attacked last Sept, 27. Examination of a police scientific investigator, Sgt. Leland Jones, developed only that portions o' the lock had been filed. He admitted he was unable to fix the time at which the lock had been filed.Numerous defense witnesses testified earlier that the lock had been out of order before, during and after the time McEvoy occupied the mansion, contradicting Miss Hansen’s testimony that she thought Flynn locked the door. On the matter of the moon, the astronomer refused to say whether or not the orb was “bright” the night Flynn, Miss Satterlee and others sailed back to Los Angeles from Santa Catalina island.“I can say scientifically,” he explained, “that it provided a good deal of light.’’Newspaper Circulations
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Lincoln Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Jan 30, 1943
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