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Betty Hansen's(story of eventslieart! 111 eourt1LOS ANGELES. (JP). The name of Errol Flynn came haltingly Friday from the lips of Betty Han-! sen—who claims the film star as- ! saulted her as the 17 year old Lincoln, Neb., girl made her first !court appearance. !Technically, the hearing had nothing to do with Flynn. His preliminary hearing on the statutory count, involving what she claims happened when she deserted a drugstore soda fountain for an evening in a Hollywood mansion, already had been postponed to Nov. 2. Then he will face a hearing not on her allegation alone, hut on one that he twice assaulted Peggy LaRue Satterle, 17 year old night club entertainer, on a yacht trip when she was 15.Friday s session concerned three I ] minor employes of a movie studio, charged as is Flynn yvith an offense against Miss Hansen.Tells of Meeting.Miss Hansen described meeting two of the defendants, Morrie Black, 22, and Arniand Knapp, 18, in front of a Hollywood restaurant subsequent to the party Sept. 27 at which she charges Flynn assaulted her.“The three of us,” she said, “drove around in an automobile for a while. Then we registered ata hotel.”There, she continued, she submitted to Black.Bernard C. Brennan, Black’s attorney, quickly cross-examined.“What, ’ he asked, “did you do the day before you met Black andKnapp?”Miss Hansen said she went to a movie. What movie, asked Brennan.“Do I have to answer that?” the girl appealed to Judge Byron Walters. almost tearfully. He nodded affirmatively.“Well,” she said haltingly, “it was ... it was Errol Flynn in 'Desperate Journey’.”Brennan gave np indication of his object in the questioning.Earlier Miss Hansen’s sister, Mrs. Patricia Marsden, who signed the complaints against Flynn, Black. Knapp and Joseph Geraldi,20, told how the girl, after coming here from Lincoln for a visit, vanished Sept. 14.Reported Missing.“I became worried.” Mrs. Mars-den said, “and reported her missing to the police. They found no trace of her and it was three and a half weeks later that I encountered her sauntering along Western ave. near Santa Monica with a tall, elderly, gray-haired man.”Betty’s court appearance disclosed that she had been ordered held incommunicado by Juvenile Judge Robert L. Scott to avoid any possibility that she may be subjected to undue influence.” An attorney has been appointed to protect her interests and even the district attorney s office, prosecuting her case, was denied for the present direct contact with her.
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Lincoln Evening State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Oct 24, 1942
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