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ey ERDUEe, & . i.» .. ace win an hour of fter being the robbery, should contair a fall and a (0 iggescciption of Cary) Chessman if, was the Red Light Bandit. J 5° WNMenpting to discover what Mes Johnson 2d Mr. Lea told the police in. oman wats taking h Mrs. Johnson, . La mediately following the crime, Arcosy exe vad him (tue Red Light amined a police bulletin issued 7:37 it) say, ‘Okay, Ed” (to someone inthe pam. on fae ary 23, 1945, and found in- Ms car), teontinies, “She — formation fata compari n with descrip. hi tions by . ; the other victims must have heen “he bandits’, Mat there was nue by either Mrs, Johan ot Me, Lee i te" Back ing down, ‘The bandit’s car was described as having, joreone moving — “four inches benvatli e: ° a citele parking fight.” 4 police photo of Chessinan shows no such parking light. Also, “on body in rear above license holder, there is a phai rome bar with Foun ia center of bar.” the pokee pho shows ne set bor or insiztit on Ch © The bullet ts “pose ble radio, which r ls with neath dash.” No such radio was found in Chessman’s cir. Yet Regina johnson Jernigan Lea Positively identified this sume car as the var belonging to the Red Light Bandit. Mrs. Johnson admitted at the prelimi- airy hearing that when she had been ch front headlight, ones of th ight crime, thiy possibilit y eationed buy tie pai! Caly Cand Chessman was were vt he have He didn't, t Mery Lea andi } Was net to tv y ye therefore pan as the Red Light Bandit, it was ES Hy 6 com Mz. Lea, and not she, who first puinted Chess tacker, She testified Chesser on, si Seld us up.” me out as her oe at Mr, Lea, pointing, “Phere is the man who he wore a can’t be certain, idee ruled that this identi! positive enorgh to warrant mn this chi cation was not an indictment » and suggested the prose- additional . lentification. nout producing any wddia tion, Cars? Chessman vas ited on A that de wis ed to dexth, anost imp ats the R Mary ank Hus Bhs question, Lea curt preliminary 300d Took at the Red i among t.-> police, the ot Mewspapers ind the gun. teen ait time of fue cominiis «to Camaril.o the police ‘e Hospita: as a ments! - tent tw ny sonths kK. Se has been t she sow ore : acl om of Miss “rangement stacked by » OF controversy has centered on Mary’s mental condition prior to her being attacked Sy the Red Light Bandit, some psychittrists claiming thy the girl wes mental at the time, other claiming she Rational or irration- al, it was Mary Meza’s. testime: that helped to convict Cary} Chessman and he went to the xas chamber on that testimony Let us examine a police broadcast sured at 5:24 aan, on the morvng of Janusry 4948. Made up from Mary's description of the Red Light Bandit, it describes. her ate tucker as “thirtysfive years of a five foot ten, medium build. sorthy os aplevion, aneshaven, very slight “aecest.” and driving a JO4G Lord sedan, dark, with red spotlight on right side of vehicle.” Mie 's Meza testificd that she couldn’t de- f fA scrilie her attacker in mer detai! because masked dl the time.” How- ever, she was in the car belonging to the Red Light Bandit for mor: than tro ORES, and a coniparison of he- H to the police with phyzu: proves EN pbs of Ches: car . nan's wate as the car si was ct was light-colored. not ¢ Athy a ' suteal as hoe aby conys ed by the Conet if shy spotlight, Mary reti very observant, U didn’t s. Even graver doubts as Mary Meza’s car as be’ att abs Samy spottehty cs Waly of identificati:» of Chessman’ in which “9 examination 2 Mescribes twa ea ag the same 22 Fash. board oF te attacked. Tn response will show L would say that would showed the dash of Chess: wes photographed by the dash that Mary Al sw ia the Red Light 3 Yet we in ha ceipts proving that ¢: Caryl Chesonin’s cay Mary Meza. had. positiv longing to the Bed Li removed fro~ his car crime and was rot retur crime hed been This stat sere mony’ of the mechanic Meza had seen a speed ia which she was att: not have been ‘r Ca she bas Miss doubt a Bordlit, se in mee car that Sendiaet as bee al 2 cay before the < antii a;ter the ried by teste E Vary Scar sould Lorene ware