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ov. Brown Spares Life ; HAR! HOLZ {gun-toting burglar was legal-|Walker appeared to be going BY Riel rire fy sane when. he shot the of-|insane_ and the sch uled SACRAMENTO—The old|#¢ers. ; _ execution was stopped. and vexing question—when|.: Three psychiatrists agreed}, WALKER LATER was is a man legally sane—has!On this at Walker's trial. adjudged insane by the court saved 43-year-old Erwin|.; chere is no question thatjand since then has been in (Machine Gun) Walker from Walker’s sentence should be|state’ mental hospitals. vt San Quentin’s gas chamber. executed,” Bowler said. But on March 1, the Majin | . Gov. Brown abruptly end-|. “THE PASSAGE. of time|County Superior Court, affer| Led ov. Bro here Ponenc tends to dim the memory,jhearing, ruled Walker y a h an Ta a 8 ft Y\and dull the conscience |—jregained. sanity. ; ; by saying Nice Sheard but not for, the dead Rell = 0 ” . ¥ ily, or for AC. enough.” He issued an_on- C. Forbes, vino to this day "jearries qa bullet against his dale man’s death sentence to|SP'Ne. i life imprisonment without! “It is still our position that possibility of parole. Walker should pay, for his | Walker killed a California crimes with his =“ erflpt highway patrolman and alker’s, tral i Py wounded two Los Angeles showed that only an houg be- licemen in 1946 fore he was to be exec\ited PIN LOS ANGELES, Po-|tan re: % nd Sar Guentin ‘ , iners told San i lice Chief Parker today blast-|Warden Clinton Duffy, ad the ruling, saying: ‘(The' —— - governor’s action just illus- trates his lack of concerr for the problems of policemeh.”) Brown wanted to know: Was Walker legally sane when he shot the officers and is he sane now? Under the law a man is, held to be legally sane if he knqws right from st | IEF DEP. Dist. |\tty Mahley Bowler, co-prog?cu- yedrs ago, told Brown ther tojon the Walker cas¢ re im .was no question the machine