Tate Deaths INQUIRY INTO DRUG LINK

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32067, 15 August 1969, Page 22

Tate Deaths INQUIRY INTO DRUG LINK

(N.Z.P. A. ■Reuter— Copy right; LOS ANGELES, August 14. Police are being led into a sex underworld by a black book of addresses which belonged to a Hollywood hair stylist, Mr Jay Sebring, murdered with the film actress, Miss Sharon Tate, and three others on Friday.

The book containing names and addresses of both men and women was found with a quantity of drugs in Mr Sebring’s car after a gruesome murder at Miss Tate’s luxury hill-top home in Bel Air.

Police are now checking out the possibility that the killer or killers might have been drug addicts or eccentrics invited to the house by the hair stylist. Four of the dead, including Miss Tate, were buried yesterday. The fifth, Mr Voyteck Frykowski, a Polish film maker and friend of Miss Tate's husband, Mr Roman Polanski, may be buried in New York today. Mr Polanski, director of a series of macabre films, including “Rosemary’s Baby,” attended both his wife’s and Mr Sebring’s funerals. He was distraught. The Los Angeles County Coroner (Dr Thomas Noguchi) released reports on how the five met their deaths. The coroner said that Mr Sebring, found hooded with a white rope around his neck which was attached to Miss Tate’s body, had been But the “Los Angeles Times” disclosed that he also had a bullet in his body. Mr Sebring was a karate expert. The “Los Angeles Times” said that Miss Tate and her house guest, the coffee heiress, Miss Abigail Folger, had been stabbed many times but were not mutilated. Face Beaten In addition, the newspaper said that Mr Frykowski, who was found shot and stabbed on the lawn, had been beaten around the face, possibly with a pistol. Broken pieces of a pistol grip were found in the home.

The discovery of the black book, containing names of both men and women, and drugs in Sebring’s car was leading police to check out the possibility that the killer or killers might have been drug addicts or eccentrics invited into the house by Mr Sebring.