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her. She is charged with murder in the Tate case. —At McKinney, Tex., Charles D. Watson, also under indictment for murder, celebrated his 24th birth- day in a jail cell, His attorney said it might be "days, even weeks" before a decision is made on whether Watson will return to California voluntarily. —In Mobile, Ala., where Patricia Krenwinkel, 21, was held on a similar charge, her attorneys de- scribed her as a "nervous, fright- ened and confused young woman," and said they would fight extradi- tion. She was arrested by local officers at the nearby home of an aunt, At the Hall of Justice in the Civic Center the district attorney's office began extradition procedures against the trio. The Criminal Complaints Committee of the Coun- ty Grand Jury announced, mean- while, that the Tate case would go to the jury on Friday. At Santa Monica Superior Court, Miss Atkins held the wicket rail, looked down, acknowledged her name, and pleaded innocent to mur- der in afidther case. Caballero said that she probably woulr ify voluntarily before the grand jury. He said police have evidence placing her at the scene of the Tate murders. But, he said, she told him she went there under an insane, almost hypnotic influence from Manson. "I was told to go," Caballero said she told him, "and I went." She is now a well-groomed young woman with long, dark brown hair, and an air almost of serenity. She went to court wearing a miniskirted white polka dot dress. She was asked not to talk of the case but, asked about Manson, she said: "He is a very beautiful man." Caballero said she had given this story of Manson's Family and its spree of crime: When Manson told his followers— most of whom were women—to do something, they did it, even if it was murder: "If Charles said it was right, it was right." He selected the Los Feliz district home of Leno and Rosemary La Bianca—who were slain there Aug. 10 in a copy of the Tate killings— "at random." It couid have been < anyone's house, she sad@. "Furthermore," sad Caballero, "he had other houses pi , as well.” Disliked Affluent People (Other sources had said that the slayers disliked affluent people. The La Bianca home was less elegant than the estate rented by Sharon Tate and her husband, Roman Po- lanski, but the family sometimes left their new Thunderbird and a trailer- ed speedboat parked in front of it.) It was for the murder about July 25 of musician Gary Hinman that Miss Atkins was first arrested on a tip to police from an informant. Miss Atkins was ordered held for trial Jan. 14 on charges she mur- dered Hinman. She was one of 26 persons arrested with Manson in raids Oct. 10 and 12 on the Manson camp at a ranch in. Death Valley, where National Park Service rangers said Manson's group cut stolen Volkswagens: and jeeps ‘ down into dune: buggies. for resale. All the. members of the group were origmanly Dooked in edisicase with the car theft ring. Then Miss:A’ was picked up as‘a anette Hinman case and nine others were picked up as witnesses or for questioning in the Tate and La Bianca cases. One of those arrested and later released was Christopher Jésus, 20, who, it was disclosed Tuesday, died Nov. 5, the victim of a.self-inflicted. gunshot wound. ; Police denied a report that Miss Tate had visited a Chatsworth ranch where Manson's group lived before moving to Death Valley. Neither the Tate nor La Bianca victims had’ known the suspects prior to the murders, police said. However, it was learned through Manson's extensive police and pro- bation records that. he had lived with Hinman in the spring of 1968 at the home in Topanga Canyon where Hinman was later found slain. Dep. Dist. Atty. Aaron Stovitz said a, testify at ran will Le as testify a ay's gra jury session.