Later that year, Lina married the actor Henry Mollison. The two toured in a number of plays in Australia. In 1943, Lina was back in Hollywood and her name was once again in the papers. One night, after visiting friends, she was driving home when she saw a soldier hitchhiking. She stopped and before she could say anything, the soldier got in the car. He was bound for Los Angeles, he said, but Lina told him she wasn't going that far and asked him to get out. Instead, he grabbed her around the neck and told her to drive. On a remote street, he ordered her to stop. Cautioning her that if she screamed he would kill her, he got her out of the car, beat her up and hit her so hard on the head that she briefly lost consciousness. Then he raped her and took off with the car. The sensational rape trial made all the papers and the soldier was found guilty and sentenced to hard labor for life.