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were TO cats _and' shooting—tiee | aw enforcement, officers.” ; Prior to. Walker's capture,’ Wynn, one of the original ad- visers on the radio-television program -“Dragnet,” worked for six months, day and night, |with only three days off, seex- ing Roosevelt's killer. Wynn scoured through the underworld but Walker had - no sonnection there. - Today Wynn recalled that police decided the phantom criminal was ‘so clever that he must have had experience in police work. t From composite descrip- tions and: drawings circu- lated among law enforce- : ment agencies, the identi- fication finally was estab- _ lished. : . | A former radio techniciah 1 the Glendale Police D:- artment answered the sus- ect’s descriptions. It wis Walker. 4c Walker went: berserk in 1946 on ‘ a crime spree in-Los Angeles. and patrol officer, Loren Roosevelt.” He also wounded two Los Angeles’ police officers, one of whom, C. W. Forbes, is still partially paralyzed with a bullet in his spine. _ It should be clear that Walker is a desperate mass killer if he is ‘allowed his freedom at any time. .. And “yet the way is being paved for just that possibility in an action taken by Governor Brown. Walker, a 14-year veteran of San Quentin death row and state psychiatric care, has had his exe- cution commuted to life impris-.. i>: that is only part cf the action. | Although the governor com- | onment by the governor. muted the death sentence to life imprisonment without parole, hie now says that he will review the case within a year and perhaps will give Walker a chance for parole if the Adult Authority approves such action. Spreng eres Taree eRe me shot and Killed’a state highway | If “Machine Gun” Walker is again freed to roam aroun d among people, the probability is ‘that he will go on another crime spree—and kill again. How many innocent personis will suffer death: this time? ;. On last March 1, Walker, now 43, was found sane by a Marin County judge. He was cue to be returned to San Quentin death row, although still under treat- ment at Vacaville Prison Medical Facility. That is. until the gov- ernor interye The anes now suny- mind : derouts -- this man, out whose into mur- ‘ould once or freeciom. n - ean 7 . te we moeer hon wane man cr Wainer has cost the state $1000 a month for the last, 14 years for psychiatric treatment. Must the cost be allowed ; to become even greater, in hum lives? Wa - Dangerous Decision —