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inkel's | Te Miss Krenwinkel's 1 ease, : people wili offer evidence |' Bugliosi ‘Said, the proving her fingerprints were found on the inside of a door in the master hedroom at the Tate res- idence. As for Miss Van Houten. ihe prosecutor said there is evidence that the slen- der, dark-haired young woman told a girl named Diane Lake.of her involve- ment in the La Bianca murders. During a-recess after Bugliosi's statement, de- fense attorney Paul Fitz gerald said the prosecu- tion had gone beyond the bounds of a proper open- ing statement. He said the outline of the case had “degenerat- ed" into a "defamatory, ‘slanderous, name - calling attack," and added: "It was emotional in tone and character and totally inap- propriate." + db : JA statement signea by | Cramer ‘Manson was dis- tribyted in the halhyay hy a-reparter for the Free | Press, an underground weekly publication. In it, Mansoh was.quoted as saying he had made the "X" on his forehead as a sign that he had "X'ed" himself from the world be- cause, among other things, he had not heen allowed to speak for himself as his own attorney. The Polanskis’ cook and housekeeper, Mrs. Chap- man, completed her testi- mony in the afternoon ses- See a es eS Se: —_—_———_— — sion, stating firmly under | defense crogs-examination 1 that two days before the | Aug. 9 murders she had »washed the doors on iwhich Watson's and Miss . Krenwinkel’s fingerprints i Jater were found. eT ' he lived. ~The slight, Sé-year-old | maid testified While clutching her bandaged left. arm injured in an au- tomobile accident. She winced with pain and ap- peared exasperated by some of the questions. The next witness was William EH. Garretgon, “19,. the only one alive on the Tate property when police responded io Mrs. Chap- man’s report of the mur- ders. The short, curly-haired young man fepeated es- sentially the stery he told police after his arrest: on charges of murder. Subse- quently, he was released. He testified that he did ; not hear shots, screams or | yelling in the sarly-morn- | ing hours when five per- sons. were killed on the Tate estate, Garretson said he wrote letters, listened lo hi-fi and finally went to sleep al dawn after trying ta check for the time and! found the phone out. of or- der. When he was awakened hy a dog barking, he said he looked up to see a po- liceman pointing a rifle at. him from a patio of the caretakers' house where Then, another police of- ficer kicked in the front door and was. bitten on the leg by Christopher, one of three dogs that he took care of for the owner of the estate. The crowded courtroom burst inte laughter, the only time of the day that. humor relieved an unfold- ing story of seven grotesque murders