• 3 Manson Women Indicted in LSD Plot on State’s Witness

3 Manson Women Indicted in LSD Plot on State’s Witness

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 – Secret grand jury indictments for criminal conspiracy were returned Friday against members of the Charles Manson “family” in the case of the LSD-laced Honolulu hamburger.

Three of the five named, Catherine (Gypsy) Share, 28, Lynnette (Squeaky) Fromme, 21, and Ruth Ann (Ouish) Morehouse, 18, waited for arrest at Broadway and Temple St., a family haunt for weeks.

The trio, five other girls of the Manson clan and a young man named Pat sat around a ventilator outside the Hall of Justice, singing in the cold wind of an impending storm. Some were barefoot and lightly clad.

Sheriff’s deputies showed up after about an hour and took the three young women into custody

The indictments, returned by the Los Angeles County Grand Jury after a half-day inquiry, reportedly also named Steve Grogan, 19, a Manson follower, and Dennis Rice, a young man in his early 20s who has recently associated with members of the family.

Grogan was returned to Los Angeles from Inyo County Friday. He had been jailed there on a charge of possession of a sawed-off shotgun. Rice supposedly left town about two weeks ago.

The indictments for criminal conspiracy involved Barbara Hoyt, 18, a former Manson family member who testified for the prosecution in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial.

The objectives of the alleged conspiracy were listed as assault to commit murder, assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily harm, attempting to prevent a witness from appearing and testifying and offering a bribe to a witness not to testify.

The tall, dark-haired Miss Hoyt testified last Sept. 25 that she had been given an overdose of LSD a couple of weeks earlier.

She told authorities members of the family had convinced her to go to Hawaii and had secured a credit card for her and Miss Morehouse to make the flight.

Miss Hoyt said she became sick in Honolulu after seeing her companion off at the airport, where she had been encouraged to eat a hamburger.

She said she ended up in the psychiatric ward of a Honolulu hospital, apparently suffering from an overdose of LSD.

As she left the grand jury room, Miss Hoyt was asked whether she thought someone had tried to kill her.

“Yeah,” she replied.

Members of the family accompanied grand jurors to Superior Judge George M. Dell’s courtroom, then gathered outside the Hall of Justice to await arresting officers.

It was the same corner at which Bruce Davis, another Manson follower, recently surrendered on a grand jury indictment charging him in the Topanga Canyon murder of musician Gary Hinman in July, 1969.

Davis, Grogan and Manson also were named Wednesday in grand jury indictments accusing them of killing Donald J. (Shorty) Shea, 40-year-old bouncer and ranchhand.

Grogan will be arraigned at 11. a.m. Monday in Superior Court.

Manson currently is on trial in the Tate-LaBianca case on seven counts of murder. The trial is scheduled to resume Monday after a delay caused by the disappearance of defense attorney Ronald Hughes.

By JOHN KENDALL

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