LONG BEACH, Oct. 22 – Two Marine deserters, identified as “kissin’ kin” of the Manson “family,” will be arraigned in Long Beach Municipal Court today on seven felony counts each, including two of attempted murder.

The pair brought back from Tacoma, Wash., Wednesday, are accused of stabbing and robbing apartment house owner Jeffrey Hanham, 48, of 3416 E. Second St, and Robert Armel Rivarola, 19, a visitor from Peru, on Sept. 26.

Vernon Ray Dean Plumlee and Robert Eugene Russell, both 20, were brought back by detectives after waiving extradition.

Bail was set at $62,500 each.

Plumlee, who listed his address as the Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth, lived there with the Manson “family” from July until early October of last year while AWOL, police said.

He had been subpoenaed as a prosecution witness in the Manson trial before deserting from the Twenty-Nine Palms Marine base this summer, officers said.

They described Russell a Manson clan “associate member” who visited the the ranch periodically.

The two were arrested by the FBI early this month at a hippie commune near Spanoway, Wash. In addition to the attempted murder counts, the two will be arraigned on grand theft and grand theft auto charges today.

Shortly after the stabbings, when the Long Beach police raided a motel room where the two had been staying, they found a tape recording titled “The Manson Story,” a typed manuscript called “Where’s Charlie?” and a book on Satanism and witchcraft.

Officers also found a 9mm automatic pistol and 43 rounds of ammunition, envelopes addressed to Tate-LaBianca murder suspect Charles (Tex) Watson, a leather sheath and a knife-sharpening stone and an Arfo-style wig.

Rivarola and Donald N. Jackson, of 1075 E. Second St., were with Hanham Sept. 26 when the doorbell rang and Hanham admitted Russell, whom he knew, accompanied by Plumlee.

The suspects left when the others went out to dinner, but returned and were ransacking the apartment when the three returned, police said.

Rivarola, the first back, was stabbed in the stomach, chest and left arm by Russell, said police.

Hanham ran to the door where he said Plumlee pointed a .45 pistol at him. Hanham, recognizing it as his own and knowing it was unloaded, attempted to grab it. Plumlee then stabbed him, police said.

Jackson, who entered last, was threatened but not attacked.

As the three were ordered into a bedroom, Plumlee reportedly said: “I’ve killed three times before, one more doesn’t matter.”

Rivarola told police that as he lay on the floor pleading for help. Plumlee leaned over, kissed him on the fort head and said, “that’s life.”

By RUSS MacDONALD