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‘Walker Vowed-t Kill L.A. Officer — Captor Blasts Brown's | FOSTER GOSS and NORMAN JACOBY By i Mercy to Murderer (See Editorial on Page C-2) If he ever is freed, Erwin M. “Machinegun” Walk- one of his captors, Wynn said todzy. © ‘Three Los Angeles police- men, Capt. Jack Donahoe, Lt. Earle Rombeau and Wynn cap- tured killer Walker in.a dark- ened Hollywood apartment, in the 1800 block of Argyle ave., on Dec. 20, 1946. Wynn wounded the desperado. <In an exclusive interview with the Herald-Express, Wynn, now an insurance adjuster, said of the killer whose death sentence has been commuted by Governor Edmund G. Brown in the slaying of Cali- fornia Highway Patrolman Loren Roosevelt: 2“Governor Brown has made a mockery of law and order in California. He has turned it into a criminal Utopia. If I were a crook, -the first place Pd head for, would be California. ‘why should a peace offi- cer risk his life in order to © protect the citizens of Cali- | fornia when you car’t even | get the backing of the gov- ernor? “After his capture, Walker told me he would Kill me if he ever got loose. ‘KILL CRAZY’ . - “walker told other njates at the Atascadero Sh- sitution for the criminal | i e that all he was wa fulg for was to kill the who shot him. in- | | : } er, 43, has sworn to kill retired Det. Sgt. Marty wm “In ayj ambulance, on the | way to she hospital, W told Lt. Rombeau: ‘The only | thing Im sorry about is that I didn’t wipe you guys’ out’ He meant the arrest ing officers... “Ble was lying on a bed with a machine gun across | his chest when we entered | his apartment. MURDER THREAT “Later, in the _ hospital, ° ‘Walker was afraid he was dying and he told me in what he thought was 4; death bed statement: Tm | sorry 1 didn’t kill all of you guys’. ‘ Le a sonce Walker told me’ | that, before he was cap ! tured, two policemen stopped him for jaywalk- ing on Hollywood blvd. | Walker said that if they had insisted on identifica- tion, he would have killed them both. . ‘When the two officers ‘ detained him, Walker told me, he had a machinegun hooked to his belt under his overcoat. That's how he carried the gun. He had re- i moved the gun’s butt. INSANITY BOOKS - . they found a seriesjof . insanity in his iL | ena wie owe ks on ‘After Walker was relved from the San Quen Prison death row to Ataz ete “1Ne NOOKS Nau ees Bives to".him by another inmat> . whb had beaten a death sel} : teilce by pretending insanity, - alker was a near-geniv who discovered on his own | how to make a high-powered © nitroglycerine: with chemi- cals for blowing up safes. “At the close of Walker’s Superior Court trial in Los Angeles, Judge Harold B. - Landreth said Walker was the most intelligent criminal’ ! witness ever to appear in his , NOT WAR HERO “Contrary to some fe ports, Walker was not a war hero. “fle told me that he had” premonitions twice and had moved from his outfits, | rather than get killed when | the Japanese’ wiped out his buddies somewhere in the | Pacific. oe “walker told me that he had made up his mind. while he was in the army that, since the government had made him work for $21 a month, he was going to get even. “walker said he decided | to pull perfect crimes. Later, in Hollywood, he a cided that he had achieved perfect crimes and planned - to flee to’ Alaska. He tojd | me that after his arrest. ‘In his one-man crit ave, he had committed At 2 20 crimes. They. | uded burziaries. stealing