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« 7-16-63) bye (Mount Clipping in Space Below) ~ Escape Plot Plot — ¥ “EUCLJFF BLACKBURN, Heralg-Exeminer ACKEUBN—o Writer County investigators | | were checking out details of an elaborate plot of condemned slayer Charles Manson to es- cape at gunpoint from a Hall of Justice court room with hos- tages through the tunnel system beneath the downtown Civic Center. ; Sheriff's investigators told The Herald-Examiner that the 38-year-old. cult leader, sent. enced to die for the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six oth- ars, "was to be rescued from the} ourt of Superior Court’ Judge Raymond Choate by a comman- do-type raid. Manson’s plans ended, howev- er, on Aug. 2 when five. mem- bers of his “family” were cap- tured after a bloody shootou with Hawthorne police during the attempted theft of 140 guns from a surplus store. A sixth member of the “faimi- ly,” Charles Allen Lovett 14 is still beme Sought for_question- ing. about the attempted “rob- hery. ae Judge Choate and Deputy Dist. Atty. Anthony Manzella, who is prosecuting ‘Manson for ithe murders of Gary Hinman land Donald (Shorty). Shea, were to be taken as hostages in the escape attempt. A Sheriff's detective, one of the investigators in the Manson slayings, told The - Herald-Ex- aminer that members of the cult leader’s “family” attempt- ed so get 8 et. Black Pantger Pauly |memhers, sho also are on [ria is fhe Hall | Hall of Justice, ee iG them In ah In a mass oreo out, ait were rebuffed. The escape route, as outlined jby investigators, was from Judge Choate’s court raom on the eighth floor of the Hall of 'Justice to a nearby elevator, ithen to the basement of the building. In the basement. are entrances to tunnels which link most of the structures in the Civic Cen- ter. caBut the, target, aego: rding £0 investigators, was the Criminal iCourts Building now under: con- striciion at Temple Street “aft ifid Broadway, directly across the istreet from the. Hall of Justice. Guns were to be secreted in the tunnel. “Family”? members and ex-convicts recruited to their cause were to be waiting in the tunnel to insure Manson’s freedom, the detective said. Cars were to be waiting at the, construction site to carry Man; son and his rescuers to a plac of safety. velfe “family” had plans and designs” “of all Civic Center, buildings a ‘and a complete skc1 of tHe~Tiniftel system ifn: derlies the area. Manson sent messages to his followers written with milk on other prisoner’s letters from the maximum security section of the Hall of Justice. The mes- sed. over by a hot iron. | Jailers have reported that |Manson, usually boastful and talkative, has been silent and gulien since the Hawthorne raid ended tn failure. “* ': ‘¢ sages could be read when: pas- (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-3 Herald-Examiner los Angeles, Calif. Date: 8/ 31 /71 Author: Editor: Title: Character; or Classification: {_] Betng Investigated BO 11971 ¢ 3; FBL- LOS ANGELES ° Edition: Tuesday Latest Submitting Office: Lo S Angeles