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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) ® 4 +72, - Voit Frokowsky was in the alte experiment with mesca- line when he ard four other persons | were slain early Aug. 9 at the home lof Sharon. Tate, it was learned Thursday. j Friends said he planned to take Re allucinogettic drug for eight or ys. | ine said Jay Sebring, who | wae rdered with Frokowsky, may also haverk taking. mescaline or a similar drug. "T saw them Thursday, Aug. 7,” said ‘Thomas Michael Hartigan, who has been quéstioned extensively by the policé. "I went to Sharon's place. Froko seemed wobbly and uncoordinated. "Sebring was sitting in a chair, his head tilted to one side, as though he were watching a movie only he could see," he said in an interview. "Sharon was in the bedrgom. 1 could see her through an open door, combing her hair. She was wearing’ a housecoat. I thought at first she, was Abigail Folger. Then she came out and I met her. Didn't Give Him Address "She wasn't high. She didn't use| drugs. She was perfectly straight. She seemed like a warm, sweet person. She seemed oblivious to! what was going on around her, as though there was nothing out of the ordinary. "I wanted to invite Frokowsky toa party at my place Saturday, put I didn't give him the address. He was too far gone on the trip. He'd never have been able to understand the directions." Harrigan thought Frokowsky was in the fifth day of an eight- day mescaline experiment when he last saw him Aug. 7. Another friend, who saw him’ Aug. 8, believes it was p. Mesgaline synthetically duplicates the effects’ of ‘the LSD-like mush- roo Mexitan tn by. some American and Indians in trance-like reli- rai fitend of the Polish ‘rokowsky on Drug ‘Trip’ Whe le Was Slain, Friends Report ae a - BY DIAL TORGERSON vo eke Sa Times Staff Writer (Mount Clipping in Space Below) emigre believes Frokowsky's use of mescaline had changed his persona- lity in recent weeks. "His personality changed. Even his face, his features changed," the friend said. "I had a feeling some- thing terrible was going to happen." So, apparently, had Voityck Fro- kowsky. "He told mea few months ago, 'I'm going to die young, and violently," Harrigan said. Frokowsky was 37 when he was beaten, stabbed and shot to death. The police investigation of the murder of Frokowsky, Miss Tate, maar aca Sebring and_Steyep arent has to a large extent cen- tered around the handsome, impet- uous, charming Pole. Friends told how his life rushed swiftly to its sudden end. A defector from Poland, he mingled with the Parisian under- world then came here and, some said, dabbled in the illicit narcotics trade. He drank chilled vodka by the water tambler, drove too fast, smoked marijuana and took mesca- line. "He had to live dangerously,” said a beautiful Polish girl who knew im. "He said he wanted to write about these things. But it wasn’t that. He would drive 65 miles an hour on Mulholland Drive. He was that way. He was always putting himself in danger." "He was a beautiful person,” said Harrigan, who first met him at a Hollywood party in January. "He would get up in the morning, and walk outside, and be happy, really happy, just being alive. He'd feel so good he'd make everyone around him feel good. "He was high just living and breathing. I don't know why he had to take anything else. But he also had that Polish, melancholy out look, that he would die young, he had to live every moment ave every experience, while could." . 1 (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) I=1 LA Times Los Angeles Date: 8/22/69 Edition: Yome Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: LA CL) Being Investigated GA-bP1) - 3°