LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 –Condemned killer Charles Manson was quietly spirited out of jail in Los Angeles by sheriff’s deputies late Monday and taken to Death Row in San Quentin.

Manson was taken from the Hall of Justice at 3:55 p.m., deputies later reported. It was only a few hours after he was formally sentenced to serve three lifetimes in prison for the slaying of two of his former friends.

Currently under death sentence for the seven Tate-LaBianca murders, the cult chieftain received the new sentence from Superior Court Judge Raymond Choate.

Judge Choate labeled Manson as “just another whining, complaining delinquent…a small-time car thief and forger with an aversion to work…and with no hypnotic or mesmerizing powers.”

The sentence followed a lengthy but futile argument for a new trial by Manson’s attorney, Irving Kanarek.

The motion for a new trial was made on the basis of a juror’s statement that he felt Manson was innocent and he had been “pressured” into finding him guilty.

“This man,” the judge said, in sentencing Manson, “would be dangerous to any community in which he may be released…therefore, he should not be released for the remainder of his life.

“There is nothing hypnotic or mesmerizing about him…he’s just another whining, complaining delinquent similar to hundreds that come through this courtroom every week. He’s a small-time car thief and forger with an aversion to work.

“Because he is older— con-wise — he attracted the emotionally sick, the misfits around him. He gave them drugs and a sense of belonging. He gave them communal living — gave them something to hold on to.

“He could have used this for good — because he was older. But they (his followers) picked the wrong man to follow…”

To Manson’s attorney, Judge Choate paid a rare compliment:

“Mr. Kanarek, you’re a sympathetic man — and you’ve argued strongly from time to time. But you wasted your sympathy this time.”

Manson, who sat silently at the counsel table — barefooted and in jail fatigues — made no comment as the judge made his remarks. However, as he was being led from the courtroom, he turned to reporters:

“All you’re going to do is keep me now,” he said.

He made another comment to the judge as he walked past the bench.

Judge Choate, in imposing the rare sentence, ordered Manson sent to state prison for life on the first count — the killing of Hollywood stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea. Shea was ranch-hand at the Spahn Ranch home of Manson’s “family”; his body has never been found.

On count two the killing of Topanga Canyon musician Gary Hinman a week before the Tate-LaBianca murders — Judge Choate stayed the execution of the life sentence “until the appeal on count one is final or until the first term has been served.

The final count — conspiracy to commit murder was similarly worded. Manson’s attorney, with whom he had numerous arguments during the lengthy Tate-LaBianca trial and the Shea-Hinman trial, brought to the stand one of the jurors who had found Manson guilty of the two latest murder counts who admitted he had been “pressured” into bringing back a guilty verdict.

In a declaration filed with the court, juror Emelio Rico said he “believed and now believes the defendant, Charles Manson, is not guilty…and was pressured into voting against him.”

It was pointed out, however, that at the time the jury was polled —when the verdict was returned — Rico claimed the guilty verdict was his own.

On the stand, Rico said he had a fist fight with the jury foreman, Daniel Hunt, following the penalty phase of the trial. However, he later admitted to newsmen, that the fight resulted only from a “personality clash” and was not based on pressure about the verdict.

Rico, however, told Judge Choate that the jury had discussed the Tate-LaBianca case although it was ordered by the court not to do so.

“I don’t see why you can’t find him (Manson) guilty,” Rico quoted another juror as saying to him during the nine-day deliberation. “You know he is a murderer. He’s already been found guilty of seven other murders.”

Manson, who sat quietly rubbing his beard, interrupted the proceedings, objecting to the judge’s interruption of Rico’s testimony with questions.

“Why did you cut his thought off when he was explaining it? No one knows but what you’ll let them see,” he shouted as bailiffs lead him from the courtroom to an adjoining holding cell.

Rico said the Tate-La-Bianca killings were brought up again as the jury relaxed in their hotel rooms. They also discussed, he said, why Manson did not take the stand in his own defense. The discussion ceased, he said, when he pointed out to other jurors that it was contrary to court instructions.

The juror admitted to newsmen later that the verdict of life imprisonment was a “compromise” decision on the part of the entire jury because they had “doubts” in their minds about Manson’s guilt.

Seven members of Manson’s “family” currently are under death sentence. They include Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten and Charles ‘Tex’ Watson, all convicted of the Tate-LaBianca killings; Robert Beausoleil, convicted of the Hinman killing, and Steve Grogan (Clem Tufts) in the Shea killing.

Currently on trial for murder are Mary Brunner, Manson’s first family member and mother of his child, and Bruce Davis, both charged in the Hinman murder.

By MARY NEISWENDER