EJECTED – Charles Manson scowling after he was again removed from the courtroom.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 – The Tate-LaBianca murder trial, often disrupted and sometimes delayed, moved into the final argument stage Monday with still another outburst by Charles Manson and three women defendants.

Prosecutor Vincent T. Bugliosi began a meticulous recapitulation of testimony to support his contention that Manson sent his “robots” on missions of murder to the Tate and LaBianca homes in August, 1969.

He showed photographs of the five Tate victims in life and color pictures as they were in death, shot and stabbed at actress Sharon Tate’s Benedict Canyon estate.

But, the “girls” — Susan (Sadie) Atkins, 22, Patricia (Katie) Krenwinkel, 22, and Leslie Van Houten, 21, were not present. They refused to be quiet and twice were removed from the courtroom.

Miss Van Houten slugged and slapped bailiffs. “Sadie” Atkins slapped a display card from an easel onto Bugliosi’s back, and Manson threw a paper clip at the judge and missed.

The three women listened to proceedings from a nearby room through a loudspeaker.

The 36-year-old Manson was removed once, then returned and sat doodling and making an occasional comment as Bugliosi began a three-day task of presenting the testimony of more than 80 witnesses in 18,269 pages of transcript.

Bugliosi claimed Manson preached a “sick, far-out philosophy” to a “family” so dominated that the defendant told them what to wear and regulated their sexual activity.

The prosecutor argued that Manson’s motive for the seven Tate-LaBianca murders was “Helter Skelter,” an attempt to start a black-white race war.

Bugliosi suggested that Manson’s “supplementary motive” for the five Tate murders was an attempt to strike back at a symbol of rejection by the Establishment.

The disruptions began at the start of the morning session when — without the jury present — Older took the bench for the first time since Dec. 3, when he had appointed Maxwell Keith to represent Miss Van Houten. Her attorney, Ronald Hughes, disappeared two days after Thanksgiving.

“I wish at this time to dismiss Mr. Keith as my attorney and hire Mary Fielder,” the slender dark-haired Miss Van Houten said.

The defendant claimed she had had no opportunity to meet with Mrs. Fielder, a novice attorney who has visited Manson repeatedly, but the defendant said she knew the lawyer was available.

Older pointed out that Keith was her fifth attorney and praised the former deputy district attorney as an outstanding defense lawyer.

“I find him inadequate according to my standards,” Miss Van Houten said.

When Older denied her motion for a new attorney and told Miss Van Houten to sit down, she remained standing and said defiantly: “You cannot tell me what to do any longer.”

Two women bailiffs, acting on Older’s order, pushed her down in her chair. She struggled to her feet, was pushed down again and slugged Dep. Margaret Campbell on the shoulder.

“I want all of you to sit down or you will be removed from the courtroom,” the judge said.

“Stop it! Get away!” Miss Van Houten cried, slapping at the hand of bailiff Bill Maupin, who had moved in to help the women deputies.

As the three were escorted from the courtroom, they called out. “You’re justice is false. You’re all just as blind as he (Older) is.”

Manson, who had stood up and then took his seat when a bailiff touched him, taunted the judge and said, “Look at me when I’m talking to you.”

Older ordered him taken to a holding room next to the courtroom.

Keith argued for a mistrial on grounds that he had not had an opportunity to confront the prosecution witnesses or to establish rapport with the jury during the long trial.

The attorney said that neither he nor any other lawyer could enter the case at this point and offer Miss Van Houten effective counsel.

Judge Older denied the mistrial motion. He said that what Keith said about witnesses was true, but he pointed out that it was the jurors, not Keith, who must decide upon their credibility.

The jurors, sequestered at the Ambassador since July, were brought into the courtroom for the first time since Nov. 20.

Manson and the three women defendants were returned. The “girls” stood when Older took the bench and chorused that they wanted “to put on a defense.”

The judge once again told them they would be removed if they did not be quiet.

Bailiffs moved in again to seat the three.

“Don’t push me, lady!” Miss Atkins said.

The girls were taken out again.

Manson addressed the jury directly, but for the most part he remained quiet as Bugliosi began his summation.

Manson interrupted again at the beginning of the afternoon session with a comment that he wanted to put on a defense and show the “other side of it.”

The four defense attorneys, including Hughes, rested their cases on Nov. 19 without calling a witness or putting up a defense. Since then, the defendants have repeatedly talked about “putting on a defense” without their lawyers.

Bugliosi ignored Manson’s comments as he moved through the testimony of about a dozen witnesses, reading from the transcript and summing up what they said.

He began with a description of Manson’s formation of the “family” by Paul Watkins, a former follower, and the clan’s arrival at Spahn Ranch by Ruby Pearl, a former stable manager there.

He quoted testimony to show the bearded, long-haired Manson had visited the Tate residence at 10050 Cielo Drive at least twice, had possibly seen Sharon Tate and knew Terry Melcher, a former resident who leased the $1,200-a-month estate.

Bugliosi said Melcher, son of actress Doris Day, had “subtlely rejected” Manson’s attempts to record for the record producer and thus became an object of the cultist’s ire.

Although Melcher no longer lived at the Cielo Drive estate Aug. 8, 1969, the prosecutor claimed, Manson sent “Sadie,” “Katie,”’ Charles (Tex) Watson, and Linda Kasabian there to take vengeance on the Establishment.

When the four returned, Bugliosi said, Manson was waiting to ask them whether they had any remorse.

“After all, why should they have remorse?” Bugliosi asked. “All they had done was kill five human beings.

“But, according to Charles Manson, human beings are pigs that don’t deserve to live. Birds, yes. Rattlesnakes, yes. But not human beings.”

Bugliosi told jurors the five Tate victims “had been cut down savagely to satisfy their master, Charles Manson.”

By JOHN KENDALL