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With it all, Caryl Chessman was-and is-arrogant, self-centered and pathologically egotistical. At San Quentin, he greeted one of his lawyers-who arrived an hour late for an appointment after winning another legal delay-with a snarling "Where have you been, you son of a bitch?" Said a former Los Angeles plainclothesman who got to know him well: "His ego is so apparent that it almost reaches out and grabs you by the throat...
...Venetian-blind installer, yardman), and the precarious family income was battered by heavy medical expenses. Chessman's mother was injured in an auto accident when he was nine, for the rest of her life was a chaired invalid, paralyzed from the waist down. And her son Carol (the Caryl spelling is his own invention) was sick and undersized, afflicted with bronchial asthma, chronic nasal congestion and a pale, dolorous, big-nosed, droop-lipped face...
...months after his second release from Preston, 18-year-old Caryl Chessman landed in the county jail on another auto-theft charge. With two stays in Preston already on his record, he faced a term in San Quentin. But he summoned his talent with words, wrote a long essay declaring that he was filled with "a sense of repulsion against all things criminal, including myself for having become ensnared in its brutal grip during my formative years." An impressed Superior Court judge put young Chessman on probation...
...into his car and perform, as the indictments later charged, an "unnatural sex act." One of the victims, a girl of 17, was also forced to submit to "attempted rape." The girl later sank into schizophrenia, has been confined to a state hospital for nearly as long as Caryl Chessman has been confined on Death Row. Some psychiatrists think that the ordeal inflicted upon her by the gunman is partly to blame for her mental illness...
...flashed a bulletin to patrol cars: two armed men had just robbed a clothing store and escaped in a grey Ford. Shortly afterward, two officers in a patrol car spotted a grey Ford, pursued it, ran it down after a wild, 70-m.p.h. chase. Driver of the fleeing Ford: Caryl Chessman...