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one of the 12 jurors’ and’ four alternates asked to be excused, briefly she begged me to allow her to remain." Watson was not tried with Manson and the oth-. ing extradition from gan. oe Shortly after his réturn here he fell into a catato- nic state but_ recoyered | sufficietitly.-to“stand trial after three months'-treat- tment at. Atascadero State Hospital, «++ Wation'’s trial in most ways was a rerun of the Manson ‘trial, ‘which ‘pro- duced testimony - almost without parallel for bizar-. reness in Los Angeles- County. _ a Manson was portrayed as an obsessed, diabolical man with extrordinary magnetic power to prose~ lyte young, commune-or-| fented, drug-ingesting per- sons to believe in his. anti- social philosophy. One of Manson's obses- sions was that a race war between blacks and whites was imminent. But the war, as he’ incéssantly preached to his "family," would end with him and his followers in contro! of pee re a =a He noted that desnite | thé Tetigrit of-the trial, not | Fought Return - - ers becapse he. was fight- Texas when their trial be: . Wanted to Lead This would come about, he predicted, when the victorious blacks would seek him out in his hiding "And, in fact," he said, 1 Place—"a bottomless pit in "when one of them was ill | the desert"—and ask him to take over the govern- ment. It was to foment such a war that :Manson sent Watson and three young women, Susan Atkins, Pa- tricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian (who turned state's evidence to avoid prosecution} to the Benedict Canyon estate of Miss Tate. with‘ orders "to kill everyone there," Killed that. night: were Miss Tate, eight months pregnant; Steve Parent, Voityck Frykowski, Abi- gail Folger and” Jay Se- bring. They died as a re- sult of more than 100 gun- _ Shot and stab wounds. ‘ On Manson's orders, the ‘killers scrawled in blood the word, "Pig" on the front door, to make it ap- pear that the assailants were blacks, ; On. the following night, Manson selected at ran- home of Mr. and Mrs, Leno La Bianea and sent Watson, Miss Krenwinkel, Miss -Kasabian and~Miss Leslie Van Houten inside te murder them after he had tied them up. The La Biancas. were stabbed more than 50 times. Again- words were spelled out. in.. bleed: to imply that the murderers dom the Los Feliz district, i a ge a aap gy sme energie