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By FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) * (Mount Clipping in Space Below) By ® AICHARD ¥ erald-Examiner Staff gyri concluded two days $f testimo- said, that nothing was wrong, that everything was “perfect,” ity to the seven, murder counts including murder. ‘He said that\anq a charge of conspiracy 4 ny in his nvurder trial after con-f4t the time of the murders he commit ag oe int fessing to the seven 1969 Tate-had no feelings and “no|three women 2% fenead to La Bianca killings and telling ju-/thought” and that he heard{been convicted and a a As rors he thought at the time that||Manson’s voice telling him “to||qpath_far- their pa ts_in_ i it was “perfect” to kill. kill everybody in the house. ‘l qrimes. Watson, 25, left the stand inf Under further prosecution the Superior Court of Judge/iquestioning, Watson refuted the Adolph Alexander late. yester-ltestimony of “other witnesses day after three hours of abra-lithat he drove the car that car- sive cross-examination by Depu-|lried him and three women Man- ty Dist. Atty. Vincent T. Bug-||son followers to the Tate home, liost. that. he practiced shogting .the When he said he hurt his hand||eun used to kill one of the Tate) while stabbing actress Sharon victims, and that. he carried the| Tate and three others on Aug. 9,) ron used to tie Miss Tate to 1969, Bugiiosd sarcastically) ono of the other victims. asked: . . ———-—---_ | He said that sinee the, mur- ders, ‘My feelings have grown quite a lot.” When asked ito de- scribe his feelings, he said, “You can’t explain how you feel about doing a thing like that.” The honors graduate of Farm- ersville High School, a 200-stu- dent facility in Texas which also graduated the late war hero Au- die Murphy, said he was under ithe influence. of drugs during the murders. He said t | “Did you cut your hand? Was jit a. deep scratch? Did jt hurt quite a/bit?” . Then, when the defendant said his victims seemed like “blobs” and “things” to him while he was shooting, clubbing and stabbing them, Bugliost remind- ed him that he had described one of those slain as ‘a woman covered with blood’’ and asked: “A woman with blood on, her, that’s not a blob, is it, Tex?” “That's ‘how iit seemed to me,”. Watson replied calmly. Asked haw he regatds Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader, he said sent him on his missions east ere eee of murder, Watson said he now Hospital Tast ‘year ‘he was beat- cotisiders Manson “a false god,|je2 three or four times by at- a-false.nroghet.” Tan eens because he refused to, . ont hin eat. ' OTA, BA EDS ty, BE He. denied a charge by Bug: liosi that last October he told a Atascadero ‘psychiatrist, “J could kill you right now,’ but dmitted that in March or April confined at Atascadero State yhile he didn’t feel it was Wwran; kill, he knew other 0 fe did. ne (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-3 Herald-Examiner Los Angeles, Calif, Date: 9/3/71 Edition: Friday “atest Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: ing Office: Submitting ce Los Angeles (_] Being Investigated C2 6F/7 23 SEARCHED INDEXED fo pate SERIALIZEO_2°-4 FILED. uy 1h SEPM 3s 1971 € FBI — LOS ANGELES wredeepanar. | ~m beet