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Missés_Atkins, Krenwinkel and_Lin; da Kasabian (a state witness who. twas given immunity for her testimo, ny and one of the women told him it was time to cut the wires. "Manson had told me,” he said, 605 I went straight up the telephone pole... I cut all the wires I could see . but I don't remember com: ing down. 7 "The next thing I recall is walking up the hill, carrying the gun in one hand and the knife in another." He said he and the girls "went over the fence” and, as they reached the residence driveway, he saw car lights approaching. “When the car stopped," he said, "{ stuck the gun in the car and shot. a He said he did not remember how, many shots he fired. "Did you know who the person was in the car?" Bubrick asked. "No, but I could hear Charlie. His voice. Telling me to kill everybody.". "Did the driver take any form ‘or. shape?" Like Being Half-Awake "No," Watson answered, "a kind of mass form, like I was half-awake." Watson testified that he walked in the front door of the house and saw a man sleeping on a couch in the living room, Then, he recalled, “Sadie (Miss Atkins) just popped up and 1 saw her go by me to the other part of the house and she started bringing | people out." "What happened then?" asked Bu- brick, “A guy started toward me... but J heard something behind me and I turned around and fired the gun at this man.” "How many: shots?" "I don't know. I went around the couch and began stabbing. Patricia| was stabbing. iVhen Sadie hollered and I we over feet hit him with the gun...7 ‘ firen stabbed him. > | He said they stopped after awhile |] kel) came running hit him for awhile_and "Katie (Miss Krenwin- over and said, ‘there's one over there’... a woman laying there with blood all over, her... I began stabbing." "Did these persons have | a form?" Bubrick asked. |) "No," said Watson, "just |4 blobs." “Any screams?" "One that was loud- . all kinds of noise.” *“uDid you hear anybody beg for his life?" "J couldn't make out anything like that . just a lot ot noise.” "Had you ever seen any of those people before?" "No, I couldn't make them out. J was doing what I was told to do." "You had no grievance at all?” asked Bubrick. "None at all," Watson said, En route to the Spakn ranch in .Chatsworth, where Manson and his fol- . lowers lived, Watson said, the group stopped to wash themselves of blood, throw away the weapons and blood-stained clothes which they hat changed for clean costumes in the car. When they got to the | ranch, Watson sail, Man- son was there, "running around without any clothes,” but “I didn't tell Charlie what happened. { just went to sleep." Recalls Life Watson began his testi- mony by recalling the first 21 years of his life in Cope- ville, a Texas hamlet hee his parents operated <a Ben | general store and |b ro zag sta ae a | a Vatson's lite-styter his testimony indicated, did not change seriously until after he had heen here about a vear, During that time he had accumu~ lated a pickup truck, ex- pensive stereo and camera equipment and an exten- sive wardrobe. Then, in August, 1968, en route to the Topanga Beach apartment Be shared with Neale picked up @ Lehn who turned out to be Den- nis Wilson, a drummer with the Beach Boys, a popular musical group. He said he drove Wilson to. hig Pacific’ Palisades | home and there he met ! Manson, five or six of "Manson's girls" and Dean Moorehouse, 51, an LSD proponent, who lived on | the Wilson estate as a caretaker. "We smoked hashish | that day,” he said. A short time later, Wat- son indicated, Wilson in- vited: him to become a house guest. . After he moved in, Wat- gon_testified, eae introdi hi LSD ie said hey attendance sate. Tet- tered in football, hasket- Yall and track all four year's in high school and graduated in the top 10 of his class. During the summers, he said, he worked up to 95 hours a week on an onion farm "and saved my mon- ey for college." "Té was my mother's de- cision that I go to North Texas State University," Did you | really want to Se Pee Bubrick go to college?" asked. "Well, my brother and sister went and I was ex- pected to go,” he replied. At 21, after completing three years at North Texas State, he decided to go to California “for the adventure, I guess. Yes, || for the adventure.” In Los Angeles, he said, he Moved into the apart- ment of David L. Neale, 27, a Pi Kappa Alpha. fraternity brother he had known at the university. | That was in the fall of | 1967. He said he first worked as a Beverly Hills wig salesman and later, with Neale. operated a wig business which failed after about four months. His initial experience with marijuana, he said, was with a girl in Texas just before he came to Cal- ifornia, Here he and Neale smoked marijuana fre quently, he said, and he had his first drug-induced hallucination when _he ate,