SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21 – Sandra Good sat demurely on the wooden bench in City Prison speaking softly and gesturing like a musical conductor.

“None of us with the mark can get a fair trial; that’s why I jumped O.R. in Portland. There’s no justice in the courts.”

“The mark” that the petite, brown-haired, blue-eyed 28 year old refers to is the “X” on her forehead that identifies her as a member of the Charles Manson “family.”

“I first cut it into my forehead with a knife while I was at the trial, after Charlie did it. Later I reinforced it with a hot bobby pin.”

Miss Good was arrested at Fifth Avenue and Geary Boulevard yesterday afternoon while waiting for a bus. Police recognized her from photos they had in the car.

She’s being returned to Portland.

“I’m charged,” she said speaking of the Oregon incident, “with helping an ex-con avoid arrest by hiding him.” Then she smiled, “I couldn’t turn in a brother.”

Since her flight she has been in the Bay Area. Though it’s been more than two years since the Manson trial, her faith in him and the “family” is still strong.

“I came here to be near him. This is where we were the most.” Then she said: “Charlie didn’t kill anyone. He had nothing to do with it. He’s truth; he’s love.”

Sandy and a few others of the “family” have been writing a book about their life style.

“We’re telling the story from the beginning to the end so that others might know,” she said.

“We were all reaching a point where we didn’t need the system to get along. For food I ate out of garbage cans. I found discarded clothes and fixed them up. We would bathe in a creek if we were out in the country.”

The “family” — according to her — includes everyone “who is aware of what is happening around them.”

“We’re all family, all the children of this country. And there is nothing I wouldn’t do to help a brother.”

As for Manson, she giggled. “Nothing has changed. Nothing at all.”

Miss Good, who testified briefly as a defense witness in the Manson murder trial in Los Angeles, also appeared on the streets after the trial to protest the conviction.

By HOLLIS WAGSTAFF