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Did Errol Stop Off to Get Vitamin Peggy Says So 1942 6, NOVEMBER 'AVAINI 'SMUN A'TIVI drAin 'HE KISSED 'BABY' IN CHURCHYARD, THEN SLEW HER By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN. Los Angeles, Nov. 5 (U.P.).-Peggy Larue Satterle, 16-year-old night club charmer, testified today that film actor Errol Flynn stopped at a physician's office "to get some vitamin pills, or something," before he took her aboard his yacht for the cruise on which he is accused She and Flynn were having dinner ate Chasen's, she said, before boarding the Sirocco, Flynn's yacht, for a weekend cruise to Catalina Island. She said Flynn telephoned his doctor while they were dining and that on the way to the yacht harbor he stopped at the doctor's office.

"He got some vitamin pills, or something," she said, to the high amusement of the courtroom crowd. Earlier she testified that Flynn spiked her milk with rum at a night club the evening of the night they had the relations on which Peggy has based her complaint of statutory rape. Near Girl's School. She said she first ordered rum and coke at a night club on the Catalina Isthmus, because that was what Flynn drank. But she didn't like the taste of it, she said, so she ordered a glass of milk and went to the ladies' room.

When she returned, she said, she discovered that rum had been added to her milk. The Sirocco, Peggy testified, was anchored off the Isthmus, near a girls' school. Flynn's attorney, Jerry Giesler, asked if the yacht were near enough to shore so she could have swum, indicating he might use her testimony later when questioning her about the alleged attacks. She said it was close enough. "Then we went ashore to a bar," she said.

"I had a coca cola and rum." "How did you happen to order that?" Giesler asked. "Were you familiar with the drink." "Well, only because Mr. Flynn always ordered that, so he asked me what I would have and I said I would have the same." She said she asked who put rum in the milk. "Flynn said he had put rum in Marie McDonald Present when Flynn dated Peggy. it, but for me to drink it because it was good for me before going to bed." Examined further about the 1941 voyage, when she was 15, Peggy was asked whether there had been any talk about sex.

"No, except in a kidding way," she replied. Asked if Flynn ever called her any pet names, she said: "Yes. he called me 'J. Q. What else did he call you? A.

Well, he called me Q. Q. What do these things mean? By David Charnay and Gerald Duncan. Jimmy had a way with women- -and particularly with Carol. He had a habit of saying, "Kiss me, baby, I love it." He said it to Carol under the ivy leaves in a dark, old church- of raping her twice.

"Yeah, That's Me" In Los Angeles court, Peggy Satterle points to herself in a picture with Errol Flynn. The foto, she says, was made aboard the actor's yacht on which, she charges, he twice attacked her. (A. P. Wirefoto) A.

Well, J. B. means jail bait and S. Q. Q.

means San Quentin Quail. Q. How did you know they meant that? A. Flynn told me. Q.

And what did you understand by that? A. Well, I knew if a man had an affair with a girl who was under age, that meant jail bait. Q. And you think it means they will go to San Quentin Prison? A. Yes, that's what I thought.

Giesler then turned to that night aboard the yacht. Q. What did you have on when you went to bed? A. I had a slip and my panties. I took my brassiere and stockings off.

Q. Were you under the covers when Mr. Flynn came in? A. Yes. Q.

How was he dressed. A. In pajamas. Q. What Color? A.

Striped. Q. Did he have any shoes on? A. I didn't notice his feet. Q.

Did he pull down the covers or did you? A. He pulled them down. Q. Did you fight him? A. Not very much.

I just cried. Q. Did you scratch him or scream A. No. Wanted to See Moon.

Peggy told under cross examination why she didn't scream when Flynn attacked her. "First, I didn't think anyone could hear me because of -the refrigeration system. Second, I was embarrassed and so humiliated. Third, I knew everybody on the boat were friends of Flynn's and I didn't think it would do me any good to scream." She then grew a little vague as to why she went down with Flynn to his stateroom the next evening. Q.

You knew where you were going didn't you? A. I wanted to see the moon from a porthole. Q. Did he lock the door when you went in the stateroom? A. No, I don't think so.

Q. Well, then, what did he say to you? A. Well, he said as long as he'd had possession of me the night before I should give in willingly this time and make it pleasant for everybody. I said I didn't think that was any argument." (NEWS foto) Dist. Atty.

Sullivan (right) confronts slayer James Mallon with. wedding ring of Mrs. Carol Tuttle, whom Mallon admitted killing. yard. She kissed him, and as she did he pulled her green silk scarf around her throat and she went limp in his arms and died.

Then he took out his knife and slashed her throat. I it a She then described what she called the second assault. Giesler asked Peggy then if the prosecutors had instructed her to wear pigtails and schoolgirl dresses to court. Shc said she wore them of her own accord. "Do you wear your hair in pigtails when you work?" he asked.

"Oh, no," said Peggy, who performs in a scanty costume at a Hollywood night club. "Yet you wear pigtails?" he continued. "Of course, when I go to the beach and other places," she said, "I feel better in pigtails." "But you're not wearing them now." "No." was the reply. "Today I feel better with my hair this way." Giesler, whom she called "that terrible man," disturbed her somewhat at first, but she regained her composure quickly and her attorneys were sustained in objecting to Giesler's questioning of the girl about an apartment. Giesler asked who signed for the small quarters she occupied in a Hollywood apartment house.

Hair Is Tumbling. Peggy attended the third session of Flynn's preliminary hearing attired in a powder blue gabardine suit and white blouse. Her dark hair tumbled over her shoulders in contrast to the pigtails of the first day. Flynn sat at the counsel table, drawing geometric doodles, on a legal pad. At times his sober expression changed to a smile when Giesler crossed up the witness, the second of two under-age girls who have testified to having affairs with him.

Betty Hansen, a 17-year-old screen-struck witness from Lincoln, told the court Monday that she submitted to Flynn during a party. Flynn appeared more at ease today than at any time since his preliminary hearing, one of the longest ever held in a Los Angeles court, started. Peggy was vague about the Police found gay, twice-wed Carol Burke Dugan Tuttle, 35, mother of two children, lying on the ground surrounding the First Dutch Reformed Church, on Jamaica Ave. between 153d St. and Parsons Boulevard, Jamaica, at 1:10 A.

M. yesterday. A few hours later, awakened from a bleary-eyed sleep, red-headed Jimmy Mallon, 32, admitted he strangled her, slashed her neck and left her there. Jimmy wasn't sorry. Theirs was a three-year association, carried on while she was living the part of a dutiful wife in a cretonne-curtained cottage at 87 Archer Freeport, L.

I. He said he was glad it was over because: "She double-crossed me and I wanted to pay her back." Never Suspicious. Credulous, indulgent Harry R. Tuttle, 36, her husband, couldn't help. He believed her when she told him she was going out with the girls.

Mallon was arrested at 148-19 87th Jamaica, where he lives with his widowed mother, and taken to the Jamaica Station by Capt. Henry Flattery and Lieut. James Leggett. Mrs. Tuttle worked as a waitress in a restaurant at 162-16 Jamaica Jamaica.

Mallon was employed there as a counterman until six weeks ago. Late Wednesday afternoon, they met and went to a tavern at Jamaica and Archer Aves. That was about 4:30 P.M. They didn't leave until after midnight and meanwhile had "about 30 beers," as Mallon told it later. They quarreled at the bar, they quarreled as they walked past the churchyard.

He coaxed her into the churchyard, breaking a chain to open the gate and there he warmed up to her and she kissed him. His hands tightened the scarf and she slipped out of his arms, probably never knowing what happened. Mallon left her on the ground, returned and used his knife on her cumstances of her "date" to make the weekend yacht cruise, during which, she testified yesterday, she submitted to Flynn twice against her will. "I remember Flynn asking me if I would like to go on a boat trip some time over the weekend, but I can't remember exactly who was Mrs. Carol Tuttle neck.

He was bending over her with a lighted match to see whether she breathed when Patrolman Joseph Doyle saw him. Mallon got away, hopped into a taxicab and went home to bed. Police traced him to his home. Among Mrs. Tuttle's belongings at the restaurant, police found a letter from Mallon, dated last May.

It began, "To the dearest girl I know," and said: "I never get hot. I turn so ice cold. Then I know I will really get bad. I could really kill someone when I get that way. What do they call it? 'Cold and calculating Mallon was booked on a charge of homicide and will be arraigned today in Felony Court at Ridgewood.

Police began a check of nearby bars when Dr. Howard Neail, assistant medical examiner, found that Mrs. Tuttle had been drinking. Their tour led them to Ye Olde Corner Tavern, where the couple had been. The bartender recalled that Jimmy Mallon had been the woman's companion and, one thing leading to another, the cops traced him to his home.

(Other pictures on page 1.) present when he asked me," she testified. "I'm pretty sure Miss McDonald was there, however." She referred to Marie McDonald, Paramount starlet and fiancee of actor Bruce Cabot, whose name earlier had been ordered stricken from the record. "Miss McDonald was supposed to be with Flynn that she said,.

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