Los Angeles, Apr. 19.
Mrs. Arthur Bernstein, mother of Jackie Coogan, the flm actor, broke down today when making a deposition at a preparatory hearing to the trial of a $4,000,000 suit brought by her son against her.
Mr. Coogan alleges that the money represents his earnings when he xi&yed nineteen years ago in Charlie Chaplin's film "The Kid" ard seven-{een other pictures as a child actor.
Mrs. Bernstein said one reason why her son did not come to any money was Because "Jackie was a bad boy ~-a very, very bad 20-year-old boy," who "could not handle money" and whose father told him "if you had money you would go completely haywire in two months Mrs. Bernstein also maintained that the law made the earnings o! minors the property of their parents Mrs. Bernstein is alleged to have remained barricaded in a room for three days in order to escape process servers, Sheriffs and deputies ever. tually broke through the electrically-controlled gate of her home~—Reuter.
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