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total of 11 senselless slayings in the Los Angeles area since the beginning of the year.
Miss Atkins said through her lawyer she went to the Tate home under an insane, almost hypnotic spell from Manson.
"I was told to go, and I went," she said.
She said Manson had visited the Benedict Canyon estate leased by Miss Tate when Terry Melcher, son of Doris Day, lived there. Melcher, rejected Manson's request for help in making a recording.
Miss Atkinson said Manson became convinced that the house was a "symbol of rejection" and ordered the murders of its occupants, not caring who lived there at the time.
She said a wealthy couple was murdered a day later because their home was selected by Manson "at random." She told her attorney he had other houses selected as well.
Among a series of slayings this year in the Los Angeles area that have gone unsolved was that last Jan. 1 of Marina Habe, 17, daughter of screenwriter Hans Habe. She was found stabbed to death in the Santa Monica mountains after being abducted from the driveway of her mother's home.
A county grand jury was presented yesterday with evidence expected to result in indictment of four or five more persons in addition to the three already arrested in the Tate case and the killing of a wealthy supermarket owner and his wife.
Ten persons were already in custody in jails across the country. They included:
- Charles Manson, 34, a slight and fierce-eyed man who was known to his occult band as "Jesus" and exercised a "Svengali" influence on his nomadic tribe of men and women. Manson was in the county jail with other cult members on theft charges at Independence, Calif., in the Death Valley area, where the "Family" had holed up.
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- Charles D. Watson, 24, one of the five police believe was actually present at the home when Miss Tate and the others were stabbed or shot to death. Watson was held in his hometown of McKinney, Tex.
- Patricia Krenwinkel, 21,
also directly involved in the Tate case.
An attractive brunette with an "ethereal mien." She met Manson at a California beach in 1967 and became a follower. She was in fail in Mobile, Ala.
- Linda Kasabian, 20, Los Angeles, another directly accused in the Tate murders. She surrendered to authorities yesterday in Concord, N.H., and through an attorney denied any connection with the murders.
- Susan Denise Atkins, 21, also known as Sadie Glutz, another of the Tate suspects. She was already in jail in Los Angeles in connection with the murder last July of Gary Himman, 34, a musician whose body was found in his Topanga Canyon home. He had been stabbed and the words "political piggy" scrawled in blood on a wall.
"Pig" was found written in blood on a door of the Tate home, and "death to pigs" at the home of market owner Leno Labianca.
Police, who had interviewed 625 people trying to solve the case, got their first real break about two weeks ago when a
young woman member of the clan poured out a chilling account of murdering for sadistic sexual gratification and out of "hatred for affluent people."
The informant said before Miss Tate died, the actress pleaded: "Let me have my baby."
Miss Tate was eight and one-half months pregnant when her body, clad only in bikini panties and bra, was found in the living room. A rope was strung from her neck around a rafter and attached to the throat of Jay Sebring, men's hair stylist and friend of Miss Tate and her director-husband, Roman Polanski.
The bodies of coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish writer Voityck Frokowsky and 18-year-old Steven Parent were found nearby.
The informant said the "Manson Family" had its origin in the Haight Ashbury hippie section of San Francisco where its membership at one time amounted to about 36 men and women.
In April, 1968, 14 members of the clan boarded an old green and white school bus converted into living quarters and headed south. The "Family" membership changed almost daily as new hippies joined and others left. A baby was born in the bus before the group reached Los Angeles.
Manson led them to the Spahn Ranch in the Santa Susanna
mountains on the fringe of Los Angeles. It is an abandoned movie set and the cult lived in the old buildings that have been seen on dozens of old cowboy films.
It was while they were at the ranch near Chatsworth, Calif., that the Tate murders occurred and those of Labianca, president of Gateway Markets, and his wife, Rosemary.
Last October a posse of National Park Service Rangers, California Highway Patrolmen and sheriff's deputies closed in and hauled the gang off to the county jail at Independence on charges of suspected auto theft and threatening the miners.
Last week, acting on information from the informers, Los Angeles district, attorney's men went to Independence to find Manson and others of his clan already in jail.
One of those who worked hardest to solve the crimes was Miss Tate's father, Lt. Col. Paul J. Tate of Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif., who resigned his commission the day after his daughter's death and worked ceaselessly with the narcotics squad.
Tate, a former intelligence officer, grew a beard and frequented Hippie hangouts chasing down leads until the police announced Monday they had broken the case.
Joy, depression in lottery
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said Finholm, "I was April 24,
number two. But I guess that
you can't satisfy everyone, so
this is as good as any."
For many, the ROTC and Reserve programs made little difference in the lottery announcement.
"The Navy Reserve already has me for four years," said Bill Knox, Colorado Springs senior. "But it might be better if guys went into the service younger anyway. Maybe they would be more willing to get out of college what they really should."
And with the uncertainty taken out of the waiting period to be drafted, Bill Fischer, Valley Center senior, thinks that college ROTC will now have to go out and really sell itself to get officers.
"Guys in the house would hear their number called, groan and then walk out of the room," said Fischer.
As president of the Kappa Sigma house, Fischer had a view of wide reactions to the announcement.
"I'm number 303 and I love it," yelled Greg Smith, Shawnee Mission sophomore.
"I guess it's the fairest way," said Carolyn Bryprыlski, Kansas City, Mo., junior, "but I think it's kind of funny that they would use dates. You know, 'Happy Birthday, you've been drafted.'"