CONVICTION QUASHED
CLARK GABLE
Woman Who Claimed Actor Was Father of Child (Received 3°, 8,45 a.m.) SAN FRANOISCO, ">ct. 28. The Appeal Court has cancelled tho conviction of Mrs Yiolet Norton, the Canadian, who was found guilty on an extortion cbarge in connection with the film actor, Clark Gable. Mrs Norton, who is aged 47, was arrested in Los Angeles in January and charged with attempting to obtain
money from Gable by claiming that he was the father of her 13-year-old daughter, who was born in England,, Mrs Norton claimed that when she saw the actor on the screen she recoghised him. The trial commenced in April of this year. Mrs Norton will now he released from prison, and will rejoin her children in Canada. The attorney for Mrs Norton arguea that there was no fraud, becauBe Gable had never been in England, and for this reason was aware that he could not be the father of the child, The attorney added that Mrs Norton had acted in good faith. On the opening day of the trial, a tsensation was caused when Gable entered the Court, the aceused crying repeatedly: "That is him!"-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 31, 30 October 1937, Page 5
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