The bearded 35‐year‐old Man son, looking short and thin in his baggy prison denims, tes tified today that he had been deprived of privileges for hav ing talked to other prisoners and for having given cigarettes to some of them and having received a newspaper in return. His principle complaints have been that he was deprived of pencils and paper, that he was forced to walk up and down a corridor until he was exhausted, that he was con tinually ordered to strip for searches and that he was made to talk with prospective wit nesses through a double screen.
Manson had asked the judge to order the sheriff's department to stop the alleged harassment. Older continued a hearing into a charge by Manson that he was being harassed in the county jail. Leno LaBianca were killed.īefore the jury was brought into the courtroom today, Su perior Court Judge Charles H.
On Monday, he is scheduled to describe the wounds of the others slain on the first night of what the prosecution charges was two nights of murder by Manson and his followers. Noguchi, the coroner, was still on the stand. Frykowski Abigail Folger, a coffee heiress, and Voyteck Frykowski, a Polish producer and writer, were also slain at the Tate residence.Īs court was recessed for the weekend, Dr. The 30 grams of hashish and the 10 capsules of MDA, the police officer went on, were found in the front bedroom, which he described as having been “occupied by Miss Folger and Mr. The cocaine was in the same auto mobile, he said. The rest, he said, was discovered in car owned by Mr. The sergeant said that 76 grams of marijuana had been found in a plastic bag in living room cabinet. Sergeant McGann, of the Los Angeles Police Department, said that his search of the premises after the killings had turned up 82.3 grams (about three ounces) of marijuana, 30 grams (slightly more than an ounce) of hashish, a gram of cocaine and 10 cap sules of MDA. Reports had circulated earlier that drugs had been found there, but the kinds and amounts had not been made public. McGann testified that marijuana, hashish, cocaine and a hallucinogen known as MDA were found at Miss Tate's home during the investigation that followed the killings. In addition, he noted that there were two slashes from a sharp instrument on her left forearm that he described as “super ficial.”ĭuring the coroner's testi mony, Manson and his codefend ants, Susan Denise Atkins, 21 years old, Patricia Krenwinkle, 21, and Leslie Van Houten, 19, sat impassively at the defense table.Įarlier, Detective Sgt. Standing before a diagram of a figure, he pointed out the lo cation, depth and direction of five stab wounds in Miss Tate's chest, eight in her back, two in her right upper arm and one at the base of her right thigh. “My opinion was - and my opinion Is still the same-that the cause of death was mul tiple stab wounds front and back penetrating the heart and lungs and causing massive hemorrhaging.”