LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 – Charles Manson’s followers were planning to free the cultist by armed assault when they raided a surplus store for weapons and fought a 10-minute gun battle with police, a deputy district attorney implied Tuesday.

Two of “Charlie’s girls” and three men were arraigned in Inglewood Municipal Court on charges of armed robbery in the abortive hold-up Saturday night of the Western Surplus Store, 13355 S. Hawthorne Blvd.

Dep. Dist Atty. James M. Ideman supported a recommendation of $50,000 hail for each of the five defendants with a suggestion of a motive for the holdup.

“I have information,” ldeman told Municipal Judge John J. Lynch, “that the 140 firearms were planned to be used for an armed assault on the Superior Court downtown to rescue defendants on trial.”

Lynch set bail at $100,000 each for Catherine (Gypsy) Share, 26; Mary Brunner, 26; Lawrence Edward Bailey, 22; Dennis Rice, 32; and Kenneth Como, 31. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 3.

The public defender’s office was appointed to represent Bailey. The four others asked to represent themselves.

Ideman indicated later that the case might be taken to the Los Angeles County Grand Jury but he declined to elaborate on the purported armed attack.

Manson and two former lieutenants, Charles (Tex) Watson, 25, and Steve Grogan, 19, are on trial in separate Superior Court cases downtown.

The 36-year-old Manson, convicted of the seven Tate-LaBianca murders and sentenced to death earlier this year, is being tried in the combined Gary Hinman-Donald (Shorty) Shea murder case. The hearing now is in recess.

Watson is on trial in the Tate-LaBianca killings and Grogan is being tried on charges of murdering Shea, a movie stunt man who disappeared from the Spahn Ranch in August, 1969.

When the defendants were takes into court, the two women and Bailey wore hospital smocks. The three were wounded by shotgun pellets in Saturday night’s shootout and are being held in the jail ward of County-USC Medical Center.

Police still are seeking a sixth suspect, who they say escaped during the shooting. He was identified as Charles Allen Lovett, 19. Lovett was not named with the others in the felony complaints.

Police said the robbers had collected about 140 guns from the store’s racks and cases to be carried away in a van when police arrived in response to a silent alarm triggered by a clerk.

The truck was riddled by more than 50 shots fired by police, and the suspects poured 20 shots into a police patrol car in the battle. None of the officers was wounded.

Ths two women were central members of the nomadic Manson “family” at the time of the seven Tate-LaBianca killings.

Miss Share and Rice pleaded no contest to charges of spiking a hamburger with LSD and giving it to a prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca trial. Each served a brief jaiI sentence.

Como was brought to Los Angeles from Folsom Prism to testify in one of the ‘family’ murder cases. He escaped from the Hall of Justice July 23.

By JOHN KENDALL