LOS ANGELES, Jul. 30 – Two defense attorneys in the Charles Manson murder trial were cited for contempt of court yesterday and hauled off to jail, where they were to spend the night.

The lawyers are Irving A. Kanarek 51, who represents Manson, and Ronald Hughes 35, the bearded novice attorney for one of Manson’s co-defendants.

Both attorneys refused to pay a $75 fine after being cited for contempt by Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older and the jurist ordered the alternative sentence of one night in County Jail.

Ernest L. Graves, another lawyer hastily summoned by Kanarek and Hughes after they had been cited, vainly attempted to argue that the charge be dropped or that the judge at least postpone the sentence until after the trial was over.

Judge Older, however, refused to heed the pleas, recessed the court and walked out as the tall lawyer was still talking.

Graves asked the court reporter to take down his statement “for the record.”

“I will not,” the reporter said, as he packed his stenotype machine and walked away.

Kanarek was cited for interrupting a witness during her testimony and Hughes for telling a prosecutor that a statement the deputy district attorney made at the bench was a “lot of…!”

Judge Older admitted that the statement by Hughes was made outside the presence of the jury, but termed it “disorderly, disruptive, vulgar and un-professional.”

Hughes, when refusing to pay his fine, said, “I’m a pauper.”

Kanarek refused to pay his fine earlier during a discussion at the judge’s bench.

Graves later told newsmen that during his many years practicing law, this was only the second time a judge had walked off the bench while he was speaking.

He said the case was reversed the first time such an incident occurred.

Manson and three female co-defendants are accused of the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others last August.