LOS ANGELES, Mar. 30 – The free members of the Manson “family”, who had hinted earlier that they might burn themselves alive to show their love for Charles Manson, heard the news on a downtown sidewalk Monday that a jury had ruled he must die.

However, they apparently decided that shaving their heads was sufficient token of their feelings and said they would not kill themselves. Society, they explained, was doomed anyway.

“Death?” said Sandy Good, asked of her opinion of the Manson penalty. “That’s what you’re all going to get.”

From the bloodbath prosecutors said Manson had threatened if he got the death penalty?

“Charlie didn’t say that,” said Miss Good. “But it’s true. It’s God that’s on the march. The brothers are going to be coming out of the jails and penitentiaries, and they’re going to judge all you people who judged them, and Charlie.”

Miss Good is 26, petite, with pretty features slightly disfigured by an X she carved between her eyes earlier in the seven months she and her companions have been sitting on the sidewalk beneath the Hall of Justice. Sunday, she and the others shaved their heads.

On Monday, her newly shaved scalp had turned pink in the day’s bright sunshine. She sat on a worn sheepskin with Cathy Gullies, Brenda McCann, Mary Brunner, Kitty Lutesinger and a youth who gave his name as Chuck X, awaiting word of the jury’s verdict.

Miss Good squinted her blue eyes and tried to picture how Manson would take the verdict.

“He’s not thinking,” she said. “He’s at peace. He doesn’t think. He just observes and watches. He’s judged himself. He loves himself 100%. He could sit in jail a zillion years and not mind …”

It was shortly before 4:30 p.m., and, on the eighth floor of the gray building above her, the jury was presenting its verdict. Miss Good’s ESP had failed her. Manson wasn’t in the courtroom at all, having been ejected for shouting at the judge.

“When he’s out,” said Miss Good, “he’ll give back what they’ve given to him.”

A television reporter who had learned of the verdict thrust a microphone in front of the young woman. “It appears the verdict is death,” the reporter said.

Tears welled up in Chuck X’s eyes. Miss Good, however, appeared only slightly angered.

“You have all judged yourselves,” she said, indicating with a sweep of her hand the newsmen, the crowd of government workers watching from behind, the surprised faces of people on a passing bus suddenly watching a bald girl hold a news conference while sitting on the sidewalk. “The jury has judged itself.

“The love and soul are in the penitentiaries and jails. They’re coming out soon. The brothers are coming out. They’re going to judge you the way they (the jury) has judged him.”

What did they plan to do?

Besides calling for a revolution to free all prisoners, the free Manson “family” has no immediate plans.

By DIAL TORGERSON