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TUESDAY. DECEMBER 20, I960
Convicted Killer Chooses Possible Execution
Instead of Spending Life in Insane Hospital
By PETER J. HAYES
Vacaville, Calif. - niPD -Suppose
you had this choice:
, Be confined for the rest of
your- life in a state institution
as insane.
Or, be sent to San Quen-
tins death row where you
would face execution unless
you could win a commutation
to life imprisonment with
possible parole in 30 years.
Which would you choose?
Erwin M. (Machinegun)
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BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Washington An air safety expert commenting on the
theory that a transistor radio may have caused a jet air
liner to stray off course and collide with another plane:
"The United pilot sure didn't fly off course on purpose."
New York Skin diver Marie Prendergast, on why she
believes more and more women will take up the under water
sport:
"It'll be just like the women took up bowling. They'll
wise up to where the men are."
Washington A delighted 5-year-old Coleen Brashear, a
cerebral palsy victim, on seeing Santa Claus at the annual
Christmas concert for retarded children:
"Santa wears glasses just like me!"
New York Fire Commissioner Edward Cavanaugh, com
menting on the scaffolding inside the fire ravaged carrier
Constellation:
"I never saw so much wood in a steel vessel in my life."
Walker, 42, a graying, quiet
spoken ex-Army officer who
has been under sentence of
death longer than the late
Carvl Chessman, chose the
second course.
The former Signal Corps
second lieutenant was sen
tenced to death June 19, 1947
for the murder of California
highway patrolman Loren
Roosevelt during a year-long
crime spree in the Los Ange
les area. He also admitted
shooting two policemen and
when captured had an arsenal
of six machine guns, eight .45
caliber automatics and 2,000
rounds of ammunition.
Prisoner Blames Nerves
Blaming his crimes on "war
nerves," Walker pleaded inno
cent by reason of insanity,
but was convicted of murder
in a non-jury trial. The judge
who condemned him called
him "a menace to society be
yond the possibility of reha
bilitation." Walker was ordered to die
in the San Quentin gas cham
ber on Good Friday, April 5,
1949. But two days before that
I Reason's :
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date he tried to strangle him
self with a radio earphone
cord.
He was examined by psy
chiatrists just 90 minutes be
fore he was to be executed
and they found that he did
not know the difference be
tween right and wrong.
A superior court jury subse
quently ruled that Walker was
legally insane. He could not
be executed unless he regain
ed his sanity.
Confined as Insane
Since then Walker has been
confined as criminally insane.
But recently he was examined
again by psychiatrists at the
California medical facility
here and this week was found
to be sane. A full sanity hear
ing in a Marin county court in
the next few weeks will de
termine whether he must be
returned to San Quentin's
death row.
Dr. William C. Keating Jr.,
head of the medical facility,
indicated that Walker might
have feigned insanity in the
recent examinations if he had
so desired.
Keating said the sandy-
haired inmate realizes he is
taking "a calculated risk" of
being executed in exchange
for possible eventual freedom
"in the twilight of his life."
He is pinning his hopes on
commutation to life imprison
ment by Gov. Edmund G.
Brown, who is on record as
opposed to capital punish
ment. Then, with good behav
ior, he might gain parole, in 30
years or less. He could not
seek commutation while still
adjudged insane.
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Use of Aspirin May
Reduce Cholesterol
Level of Blood
Despite the advance of
mechanization, more than 80
per cent of the world food sup
ply is still produced chiefly by
human or animal labor.
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York -OTD- With phar
maceutical chemists busily
tailoring more complicated
(and expen
sive) drugs to
reduce the
choles t e r o 1
level of the
blood, what a
joke it would
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the makers of margarine and
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ing large amounts of the un
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Deputies To Return
Suspect in Killing
Eugene - IUPII - Deputies
left Monday for Delano, Cal
if., to get Donald Orric Nor
they, 35, for questioning in
the August slaying of Alice
Louise Lee, 7, Dexter.
Northcy was being held at
Delano on other charges and
has denied the slaying. He has
waived extradition.
The girl apparently was
strangled after disappearing
Aug. 29 from a bean field
near Dexter.
Newfoundland, like
land, is free of snakes.
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in the blood of patients who
had had or might have heart
attacks because of hardened
arteries, rather than the chol
esterol levels.
Can Cause Gout
The latter were quite high,
to be sure, and he wanted to
get them down but he figured
that if you lowered uric acid
levels the cholesterol levels
would come down with them.
Uric acid is the end product
of purine metabolism. Like
cholesterol it is a normal blood
constituent but too much of it
causes gout.
Now, cholesterol is a prod
uct of the body's metabolism
of fats and it is not unreason
able to believe that fats and
purine metabolism is inter
connected in a number of
ways. And it is also known
that aspirin influences purine
metabolism.
Eidlitz tried his Ideas on 10
patients with abnormally high
levels of cholesterol in their
blood. Some had rather high
uric acid levels. Each one was
required to take one and a
half grains of aspirin daily.
A common aspirin tablet con
tains five grains.
Reduces Blood Leveies
At the end of two weeks
ihe cholesterol blood levels of
all ten were reduced although
the uric acid levels of some
were not affected and in one
case was even increased. At
the end of one month, choles-
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