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ERROL FLYNN-Errol Flynn Arrested on Morals Charge■ HOLLYWOOD — lt;UR) — Errol Flynn returned to the heroics of the sound stages today under $1,000 bail, charged with, criminal assault upon Betty Hansen, 17-year-old, movie-struck ‘waitress, who quit her job for the chance to meet him.She accused him of taking her upstairs after a dinner party in the Bel Air mansion of wealthy .sportsman Fred Mcevoy and there ‘indulging in what Dist. Atty, John F. Dockweiler called statutory rape. Three other studio workers, held. with Flynn for arraignment on the same charges nfx^^iciay, admitted illicit.relations with her,* Du unfounded',' He Said u-ytPh.^eurly-hetid M—Fiynn,*. pcr-^ ■ forming; on the - Warner sound stages as a heroic Norwegian fighting the Nanis, said. Miss Hansen’s story left him dumfounded.“I hardly knew her,”, he .said, “We'exchanged, only a few-words when we .were introduced at dinner, I was with Mr. Mcevoy all. evening arid I' left before • any of the other guests.”The Warner brothers indicated by continuing production of Flynn's picture that they would stand behind 6im until his trial, Hollywood wondered whether the public also .would withhold judgment, or whether his career as one of the. movies' highest-paid actors already had reached an abrupt end.Tells Sordid StoryMis*- Hansen told first to 'the grand jurymen, who wouldn’t believe .her, and then to the district attorney, who would, the sordid J tale of a Lincoln, Neb., high school £ girl- who was willing to go to any * lengths to become- a movie actress._ She said she gladly had rela- c tions with the men she accused, because she believed . they might j; help her become a picture -star, * The prosecutor explained that un-der California law any such re- '? lation* with a; 17-year-old girl, u even with her consent, is statutoryrape. 't;Prosecutor Dockweiler accused the grand jury of “ignoring the q evidence, .which' he said, was as v definite as his office ever received tn such cases. He issued the-com-plaints late Friday, and the Irish- bom Flynn surrendered voluntar- . dy a 'few minutes later,- rFight* Made News For years, Flynn's, night club ir battles, fights -with Lili Damita, his 51 sx-wife, and, arguments .with, the Warner brothers, have made front “1 page .news. He. became an Amer-can citizen a few months ago and rr sought, a commission in the army. rr His 'draft board' gave him a 4-F i rating.. Flynn denied -that he was ^ suffering - from tuberculosis,.as resorted, and said he had “athlete’s u; leart,” He’added that if the army w vouldn’t .have him, he believed he elt; :ould find work as a war corre- $!iDandent. fr
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Madison Wisconsin State Journal
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Oct 17, 1942
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