Friends Of Slain Sharon Tate Offer Reward Of $25,000
September 4, 1969
Los Angeles Times
Friends of murdered actress Sharon Tate offered a $25,000 reward Wednesday
for information about the crime in which she died.
Posting of the reward was announced in London by actor Peter Sellers. He said
he and several friends would contribute to the reward.
Sellers discussed such a project with friends of Miss Tate and her husband,
director Roman Polanski, when he was in Los Angeles last month. Sellers was
among those who attended Miss Tate's funeral.
Knowledge Or Suspicions
"Someone must have knowledge or suspicions their withholding, or may be
afraid to reveal," sellers said in a press statement.
"Someone must have seen the blood-soaked clothing, the knife, the gun, the
get away car. Someone must be able to help."
Polanski's Attorney, Wallace P. Wolf of Beverly Hills, said that any
information is to be submitted in writing to a Los Angeles PO Box. Any
information obtained will be turned over to the Los Angeles Police Department,
Wolf said.
Payment of the reward will be made on arrest and conviction of the killer or
killers, Wolf said. The information is to be sent to P.O. Box 60048, Terminal
Annex, Los Angeles 90060, he said.
Actors Warren Beatty and Yul Brenner were identified as two of the friends
who joined Sellers in contributing toward the sum offered. Wolf said he believed
Polanski himself also contributed.
Detectives have interviewed more than 300 persons sense the murders early
August 9 of Miss Tate and four companions at the Polanski-Tate Estate in
Benedict Canyon. The only person arrested in the case was William E. Garretson,
19, caretaker at the home, who was later freed.
Another reward in the case was offered earlier by a Woodland Hills woman who
describes herself as an amateur detective.
In a classified advertisement printed in the Times, she offered $200"to
anyone who can prove that they picked up a hitchhiker on or about August 9 in
vicinity of 10050 Cielo Drive."
The woman, who asked her identity not to be disclosed, said she was
interested in the case and hopes to clarify young Garretson's accountant of
having hitchhiked from the Polanski-Tate home at 10050 Cielo Drive to Sunset
Boulevard, and back the night of the murders.
