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Charles Manson — Part 4
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ury | Said 3 not; addigg, “T can
Y rena cecice Leslis Wiig
something on the wall.” _
Watson, testifying, in: his own Vey MEE eid A
Pion | said tua iyo OF |fee heiress Abigail Folger at the
after: the Tate-La Bianca mur-}| direction of Miss Krenwinkel.
Make sure everyhody’s: dead.’ ”| \ders, Manson asked him to kill]] *Speaking in a dull monotone,
The slender, six-foot. tal de-| {a forest ranger and a California}}ie said he. committed, the mur-
fendant. said he had never been| (Highway Patrol officer in ‘Inyo||dets under the. influence of LSD,
at'the La Bianca home. until the) ‘County. pélladonria. root and Methadrine,
night of the murders. He said he] | “1 knew then not; to kill,’ he] \anid because Manson had told
| jtold the six-man, six-woman} |him to. “Kill everyone. there as
jury. “The other people J didn’t} |gruesome.as T could.”
even know JI killed. I didn’t)| He said he did not. see, the
know they” were real, Now} [faces of his victims, describing
things were becoming more] \them as “blobs.”
real.” .
| { Watson said he had’ no feel-
‘The former high school Donor} ‘ings at the dime the crimes:
student’ said. that the day after] were -conimitted but that his
Manson -ordered the two new] }‘feelings have grown quite a lot
murders, hie: went back to his} jwith the help of other people.”
home town in Texas, wheré he; | Asked to describe his feelings
stayed for several days.
today, Watson saidi, f
"“T ¢ouldn’t get away from|/ “You can’t explain how you
him (Manson), even though J] |feel about doing a thing ike
was. in Texas,” said Watson, ‘Ij that.” oo. H
couldn't get him out of my)! He has pleaded innocent, by|
head.” reason of insanity to the seven}
Watson said he returned to! (intirders for which Manson ‘and
California in search -of Mansory ‘
but. never ifound him. At that
time, the hippie cultist and)
many of his followers weré-in, *
the Inyo County jail:.
In describitig the Tate ‘mur
ders yesterday, Watson said he:
shot 17-year-old Steven Parent!
in’a car outside. the Tate home,
then«shot and. stabbed hair styl-
ist Jay Sebring. en
| Story of Los.
Feliz Deaths ©
By RICHARD COX
Herald-Examiner Staff Writer
Charles (Tex) Watson,
Who-has: confessed the Sha-
ron Tate murders, today
added the names of Leno
and Rosemary La Bianca
lo his list of victims, say-
ing he killed the couple on
orders from Charles Man-
son. “Leslie was hollering—she
s ; was screanting,” he continued.
leh 25, said yesterday he] |< sean eee the SEE Ee
“Ded Kill four of the five per-| | she was screaming, ahd she was
flict alain at Miss Tate’s Bene- stabbing another person ... a
1969. anyon home on Aug. 9, woman who: was kind of stand:
ing, falling ... I stabbed the
female. ;
“Katie came running into the
room, and called. me: into they
other room, and we continued to
stab: on the person in the other;
room,” he ‘said:
Asked by: defense attorney
Samuel Bubrick if he had wri
ten any of the ‘words found
paiuted in blood on thawalls.o
the La Bianca home, Watso
__——$ $$». +
go in and do it. like last night,
Jying on a couch.
| “T started stabbing on the
body on the couch,” he said. “It
had a cover over the face. °]
couldn't. tell if if was a man or
a woman. ‘ "
He told the Superior Court off,
Judge. Adolph Alexander today
Before. starting out, he contin-
ued, Manson gave him a knife
and an LSD tablet.
Charlie got out of the cari”
Watson said, describing the
group's arrival at the Los Feliz}
area _Lésidence occupigd py the
grocery executive and his wit
ee EE
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