• Until Charlie Gets Out Girls Vow to Continue Vigil

Until Charlie Gets Out Girls Vow to Continue Vigil

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 – The Charles Manson “girls” who have kept a five-month vigil outside the gray Hall of Justice took the Manson guilty verdicts calmly Monday and vowed they would stay there “until Charlie gets out.”

When it was suggested that they might have a long wait, Sandy Good, an articulate 26-year-old, declared:

“We’ve been here for five months, and we can be here forever. The city’s not going to last that long. He’ll be out. All the people will be out — Angela Davis, Bobby Seale. There’s a revolution coming. You’ve all judged yourselves.”

The girls — Miss Good, Brenda McCann, 20, and Kitty Lutesinger, 20 — were kneeling on the sidewalk at Temple St. and Broadway when they heard on a transistor radio that Manson and three other members of his nomadic “family” had been found guilty of first-degree murder.

They listened quietly. There were no tears, no great display of emotion.

A crowd had gathered and Miss McCann turned to them and asked: “Are you proud of it?”

The attractive brunette is the wife of Bruce Davis, under indictment along with Manson and others in the murder of musician Gary Hinman. Davis’ trial is pending.

While the three girls awaited the verdicts, they sewed on a colorful vest they said were making for Manson, sang folk songs and talked to newsmen.

Miss Good assumed the role of spokesman. She wore a white raincoat, purple slacks, a striped sweater and black sandals.

“He couldn’t kill anybody,” she said of Manson.

“We know we’re going to the desert,” she said. “Whatever happens, we’ll all go to the desert, Charlie too.”

In September of 1969, a month after the Tate-LaBianca murders, Manson moved his tribe to an outpost in the desert near Death Valley, where he was arrested.

Miss Good, petite and brown haired, has been camped at Temple St. and Broadway since September — three months after the Manson trial began.

In succeeding months, the crowd of followers grew to as many as a dozen but dwindled to groups of three and four.

The three girls there Monday all had the Manson family symbol — the letter “X” — scratched on their foreheads signifying their voluntary removal from society.

Arrested early in their vigil for sleeping out on the corner, they returned later in a small van that they use as a dormitory.

They keep it parked nearby.

“We move it from 7 to 9 am, so we don’t get a traffic ticket,” said Miss Good. “We’re staying here on this corner until Charlie gets out.”

By WILLIAM ENDICOTT

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