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DETROIT FREE PRESS Sunday, April b. ill oy Frien i I i IF. "I was terrified of him," pend the night in Cheryl's cell. least she Is able to cry. can't." Bat later Cheryl did cry.

Miss Turner returned several I hours later to have "breakfast with the girl. she said. Later she asked if she could Cheryl said only: "I wish I were like my mother. At if HUDSON'S THR Lana Continued from Page One stepped into the case to represent the gtrL The drama beg-an unfolding late Friday at Miss Turner's luxurious rented Beverly Hills home. Her daughter was y.

1 Was Vj Mickey Cohen spending her Easter vacation from a fashionable girls' school in Ojai, Calif. Stompanato, dark haired and handsome, was present as escort and boy friend of the star who started out as film-dom's first sweater girl. An argument broke out, according to Police Chief Clinton Anderson, who reconstructed the slaying. "I was in my room talking to mother when Johnny came in and began yelling at her," the teen-aged girl told police. "She told him, 1 told you I don't want you to argue in front of the Cheryl said Stompanato and her mother went to Miss Turner's room and the argument continued.

"I WENT to the door to listen," the girl continued. "He kept saying over and over again to mother, 'I'll have you cut and disfigured and I'll just sit back and watch it The girl told police, thought he was going to get her." "I ran downstairs to the kitchen and grabbed the first big knife I could find and raced back upstairs." As Cheryl got back outside Lana's Life Was a Mess. Fame or No I1SEDT STI1ES V- i x.N I 5 i LJ x. VI Machine WoshoSlo Vv for eesy core i -4 1 A I i 1 6 Fiearble for HKr- 'i I 'In. a fJ In i i.

HOLLYWOOD 14V- Glamor and fame have been the prizes of Lana Turner's professional career. But tragedy and domestic un- 'i I itn ju-rv''' happiness have marked her per sonal life. When Johnny Stompanato was slain in her home, it was not the first time death had struck close to her. In 1930, when she was 10 the bedroom she said, Stompanato was storming out of the room. She faced him with Lana's father, John Turner, was RESTING HER HEAD on the shoulder of her father, Stephen Crane, 14-year-old Cheryl waits to be taken to the juvenile section of the Beverly Hills Police Station.

Crane was Lana Turner's second husband. killed by robbers in San Fran Cisco. the knife in her hand. The girl said she plunged the LANA MARRIED four times. knife into Stompanato 's Each marriage ended in divorce stomach "with all my might." Her daughter, Cheryl, 14, is being held after admitting that fit x- she killed Stompanato.

THE STAR saw the stabbing from over Stompanato 's 4 1 On March SO, 1957, Cheryl ran away from an exclusive girls' school and showed up hours later wandering alone In a Los Angeles slum area. The beautiful blond Lana- 3 PS canvas casuals give you sure-grip, ease foot fatigue and are washable shoulder. "I didn't know what was the actress said. "I thought she was just poking Johnny with her finger." But she quickly realized It was more serious when Stompanato, with a look of disbelief, staggered back into the bedroom. Miss Turner said she bent over him, took a handkerchief and began wiping blood from him.

known as the "sweater girl" in the late 1930s and early 1940s 5 was born Julia Jean Mildred 5 51 i Frances Turner Feb. 8, 1920, in Wallace, Id. It 1 V. in -a IMS A i 4f -I I 3 --4-'- Hiking HER FATHER was a roving; man and the family moved all over the West until he was cut down by bullets Dec. 15, 1930.

Her mother, a beauty operator, finally brought Lana to Hollywood. Lana's discovery by the movies is a classic one one that still lures young girls to Hollywood. She was sitting in a drugstore when Billy Wilkerson, publisher of a Hollywood trade paper, saw her and liked her well-filled sweater. At 19 she married band lead This Is the Home Where Lana's Boy Friend Was Slain MEANWHILE, Cheryl ran into her own bedroom and called her father at his restaurant. "Come quickly," the girl said.

Crane's restaurant, is only a few blocks away. Crane heard his daughter say she had killed Stompanato and immediately called police. Miss Turner, Crane and accompanied police as they TRACTION soa for sturdy thrink-prooi tO'cofh uppert Zoom cushion, Ivy-stripe covered insoe reinforced heel counter, toe copi er Artie Shaw. Divorce ended the marriage several months later. Shaw was too austere Relaxing took the girl to the Beverly Hills Police Station.

Giesler, who has represented most stars involved in major criminal cases, immediately termed the case justifiable homicide. si I- Ii If Till tfiri inrlf -'tex, trtliilritf Kii-iTfiff i iviiti.vrifiuinfi M1S1. jliir i V. i''W(vili Golfing DISTRICT ATTORNEY William B. McKesson said the girl can be tried in a criminal court but that California law prohibits the death penalty for minors.

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Then she divorced him. Her next marriage was to the tin fortune heir and sportsman, Henry J. (Bob) Topping. They were divorced in 1952 after four years of marriage. In 1953 she married screen Tarian Lex Barker in Italy.

And for a while It appeared that the marriage would succeed. It didn't. They were divorced last July. Stompanato was her most recent romantic "interest. The District Attorney's office declined to recommend any bail for the girl.

The hearing will be held Tuesday, which means she will be held in custody in Boa Juvenile Hall, Los Angeles County Jail, at least until that time. Lana Wept for Her Daughter. Later She Managed a Wan Smile HE WAS ailCKEY COHEN'S BOY Police Call Victim a 'Gigolo AIV fc.K ri.KMEM men like cotton hose with CUSHION FOOT because they ease foot fatigue GAMBLER Mickey Cohen, with whose name and activities Stompanato had been linked earlier in his Hollywood career, appeared at the police station several hours after the slaying to claim the body. When the pudgy little gambler was told that Miss Turner's daughter had stabbed Stompanato, Cohen shook his head in disbelief. "I can't understand It.

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He revealed that, movie star Lana Turner told him Stompanato had beaten her several times while they were traveling together in Europe. Dark, handsome Stompanato, S2, was stabbed to death by Miss Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, 14, while Stompanato and the actress quarreled in her bedroom-. I 1 la Turner and us (Cohen and Stompanato) used to go horseback riding together. She seemed to like Johnny very much." Miss Turner told police she had been trying to break off her romance with Stompanato since last Christmas. I divorce last July from actor Les Barker, she and Stompanato had traveled to London, Paris and Acapulco.

They flew back from Mexico March 19 after a two-month stay. A memento of Stompanato's romance with the actress was removed from his wrist at the morgue. It was a love bracelet, inscribed in Spanish: "Daddy John my sweet love, this nemembers a piece 'of my heart which will always be with you Lanita (little Lana)." Stompanato was known as a member of the underworld crowd on the fringe of Hollywood. But he had teen arrested only twice for vagrancy. When he appeared in Hollywood in 1948, he said he had been running a string of night clubs in China since being discharged from the Marine Corps after World War II.

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Downtown. T.t Bi. AND 3D land and Eastland NIGHT SHOPPING DOWNTOWN Every Monday, Wednesday till 8:30 NORTHLAND and EASTLAND till 5:30 to actresses. His first wife was Helen Gilbert. They were divorced July 8, 1949.

He married Helene Stanley Jan. 17, 1953, and they were divorced. Feb. 10, 1955. Stompanato's family arranged Saturday to return his body to Woodstock, 111., for'services and Stompanato was seen often on the Hollywood scene but his past was shadowy.

He first became known as an associate of Mickey Cohen when Mickey was a big-time Los Angeles gambler 10 years ago. EVER SINCE Miss Turner's -r Call CApitoI 3-5100 till 9:00 P.M. Store Hours: DOWNTOWN, Wed. 9:15 to Tues, lt o.ic c-in KinPTWi akio and tiaiAwn wj Ihursn Pnn bat. 9:15 to 5:30.

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