• Five More Charges Filed In Manson Family Case

Five More Charges Filed In Manson Family Case

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 — Five more members of Charles Manson’s hippie group known as the “Manson Family” have run afoul of the law, this time for allegedly trying to kill another family member to keep her from testifying against their guru.

The Los Angeles County grand jury Friday indicted the five for giving Barbara Hoyt, 18, an overdose of LSD In a hamburger in an effort to prevent her from testifying at Manson’s trial for the seven Tate-LaBianca murders.

However, Miss Hoyt survived and took the stand for about two weeks of damaging testimony against the 36-year-old convict.

Three of Manson’s female followers, two of them pregnant, were arrested on a street corner outside the Hall of Justice where they have camped for months during the Tate trial, which is in recess until Monday. They and two male family members were named in the indictment.

When police arrived to arrest Catherine “Gypsy” Share, 28, and Ruth “ouish” Morehouse, 18, who are both pregnant, and Lynette “Squeeky” Fromme, 22, the group began singing “One Is One,” a song composed by Manson.

Several other Family members gathered at the corner appeared unhappy that they weren’t named in the indictments and volunteered to go along with officers and be booked.

The names of the two men indicted were not made public.

Earlier this week, Steve Grogan, 19, was indicted along with Manson, for the murder of Donald “Shorty” Shea, 36, a movie stuntman who worked at the family’s Spahn Ranch headquarters until he disappeared in August, 1969. Grogan is being held in lnyo County on an unrelated charge.

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