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r « «+-FDY350 (Rev. 7-16-63) “ BY ED MEAGHER Times Staff Weiter voice to his attorney, Maxwell (Mount Clipping in aed | OES Gi ce te aa Sees © PROSECUTOR atson Sentenced to Die for Seve ite] So ee ee au thad stolen his mind b peneting oa ‘elective asin - "Nobody's crying,” said Charles ( fezationof mind-altering drugs. (Tex) Watson Thursday in a low + a SS 5 And that on Aug. 9 and 10, 1969, at Keith, as he scanned the jurors fil- lene homes of actress Sharon Tate ing into their seats, "and that's bad." land Leno La Bianca he shot and -He was right. Moments later in the ‘stabbed the victims not as himself hushed courtroom Clerk John Pap- /' but as a mindless extension of Man- pas read the verdict: "Having found = son's will. ‘he defendant, Charles Denton Wat- + son, guilty of murder in the first de- gree... . we, thé jury, fix the penal- iy as death.” ‘ ee \ Watson had gambled and lost. The jurors could and did believe that the neatly groomed young man in the Ivy League clothes seated before them—a scholastic and athletic whiz in high school, a fraternity man in college, properly raised in a God- fearing, small-town Texas home— was reconcilable with a wild-eyed, shaggy-haired brute who. murdered seven persons he had never known or oe seen sae a his life. - Watson's only defense was_Ahat , ° Charles Manson, leader of a murder- aaa nm an a Day by day for almost 12 weeks, . since the trial began Aug. 2, Watson. . sat in his chair at the counsel table, the picture of a young conservative. ' He showed little emotion when the jury found him guilty of first-degree murder on Oct. 12, or-. last Tuesday when it rejected his plea of innocent by reason of insanity. In character to the end, he stared vacantly ywhile the. clerk read the * verdict of death. ‘ But as he strode from. the-court- room, flanked by deputy sheriffs, and faced a platoon of photogra- phers and questions of "Anything to say, Tex?" his lips parted in what appeared to be a faint smile. He said pean ns walked, chin up, into “the courthouse elevator. | rll (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) iH -3 Los Angeles Times os Angeles, Calif. me Date: 10/22/71 Edition: Friday Final Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Log’ Angeles (_] Being Investigated SEARCHED, INDEXED 49 p SERALITELS FILED exh | | 1 012.2 197 ~- LOS ANGELES