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4-20defendant with Miss Atkins,in alka, were shot vith, the the Hinman case, Robert K. Beau- same caliber revolver. soleil, 21, was tried last week, butan Frykowski also was 8-4 vote for his conviction resulted in a hung jury and a mistrial. He was arrested in August, two days before the Tate murders, and his connection with Manson's hippie tribe is not known. However, a second informant in the Tate case testified at Beau- soleil's trial that the defendant had boasted in late July about killing the musician. The second informant is Daniel Thomas deCarlo, 25, of Inglewood, now under heavy guard. DeCarlo reported he knew of the hippie tribe’s murderous excursions because he was the head of a motorcycle gang formerly headquar- tered in Death Valley near the Manson commune. The motorcyclists reportedly were invited to join in the Tate murders, but deCarlo rejected the overture. Miss Atkins was charged with the Hinman murder, as was Beauso- leil, but she was not apprehended until long after the Tate slayings. Their cases were severed. She was arraigned only last Wednesday. Police believe the killers entered the Tate residence just before mid- night Aug. 8 and the murders oc- curred some time before 12:30 a.m. Aug. 9. Parent was slain first, with a .22- caliber revolver, police said. All four other victims died at slab wounds but Sebring and Frykows clubbed over the head with a heavy instrument. It is understood police believe only one gun was used in the killings. Davis credited "tena- cious investigation carried on by robbery-homicide detectives" with forcing the break in the case. The chief said the inves- tigators "developed a sus- picion which caused them to do a vigorous amount of work in this Spahn ranch area and the people con- nected with the Spahn ranch which led us to where we are today." The ranch is one mile west of Topanga Canyon Road on Santa Susana Pass Road. Davis said evidence -in the Tate case obtained thus far will be presented to the County Grand Ju- ry's criminal complaints committee this morning to support a request for a formal inquiry on Dec. 9. The district attorney's office has assigned three deputies to assist detec- tives "to make certain all legal requirements are complied with," Davis ad- ded: He said the three, J. Miller Leavy, Aaron Sto- vitz and Bugliosi, "will ca ‘case to its con- clusion." ——_—