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Maxwell” Keith, coyzizanaaint- |jed"atwrey for one of the three calf Or"Ute living deatr” and Fe- |jwomen codefendants with Man-| | cite the first namies of mem- suited her tothe rey y=al oe es ne aly ele ‘mindless child” and urged that uh BANAT. Maren, jurors not fix her punishment by the. ruthlessness of the seven slayings. “Leslie must live,” Keith told the se v.en-m.an, five-woman jury. ‘She has got to live.” > Keith recited to jurors a roll ‘e Cui Head: | ‘Not Going To Take It’ By CLIFF BLACKBURN Herald-Examiner Staff Writer Cult leader Charles Manson ; ot warned prosecutors atthe Shar-|| Although he did not name . can) (Manson as “The vicious’ and} on Tate-Leno La Bianca murdert alevolent” force that madel trial today- that if he is ‘sent-| Miss Van Houten “a sacrificial] enced to*the gas chamber a] lamb,” Keith said that.the same reign of murder will follow. ffear that. ruled the Spahn Movie “If I get the death penalty, (Ranch pervades the courtroom. there’s going to be nothing but He said that when Miss Van murder and. bloodshed after-||Houten went to the movie wards,”” Manson told prosecu- ranch, “her mind was a vacuum tors Vincent T, Bugliosi and Ste-||- - ° a vacuum for the intrusion phen Kay as court began, “‘Be- repair,”’ Keith said. “What hap- pened to produce eight sense- less and insane killings? ... What forces produced these tragedies. \ “What ‘terrible storm cami down to tear up: and blight the. lives of these girls and all the girls who lived at the Spahn Ranch. { think you kifow.” ot the devil.” cause I'm not going to. take it.”}', eithargued that whiletfams Recently, deputy sheriffs who py” Saecdbias Geailed, Wiel Mixa guard Manson in a small cell ‘SO ir leader, “there adjoining the courtroom of Su-| {must have been a leader. perior Court Judge Charles H.}|] « ” i Older, warned" the district attor- a, nee a he i be Ket ney’s office that Manson had) }oorsyasive and, frightening in- said that if he was sentenced to fluence.” death he would kill his attorney,} :. . oo, ‘Irving. Kanarek, and Judge Old-| | Manson, Miss Van Houten, er. He did’ not: elaborate on how] {Susan Atkins, 22, and Patricia he could’ do this while in'jail. | |Krenwinkel, 23, were found ' The prosecutor stated: that} jguilty in the slayings. Miss Van Manson made his threat. this| [Houten was tried only for the morning in a “very éalm and deaths of wealthy grocer La Bianca and his wife, Rosemary. sertous voice.” The threat was made, the! | Jurors’ are expected to be prosecutors said, as they] |sequestered, tonight to begin de- walked into court today. Man-| |\iperations: on life in prison or son, because, of unruly conduct.) death in the ‘gas. chamber for the four defendants. ‘is’ held in a detention room Ce SAE NEAT COR Day Keith stated’ ‘that parti 7 ,| |Bugtiosi had read a roll call o aanenn Demand eave the dead at the end of the guilt or innocence phase of the trial prosecutors, as. he has in the past, and made the quick com- when te listed the n: f the seven murder victims. ment to them, they declared. The final phase of the. penalty) trial_then continued on schéd-} ule. —_—_—