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TOL Seen With ~- Cult Leader At Ranch By WILLIAM FARR Herald-Examiner Staff Writer Disclosure by hippie camp fdllower Susan Dep- ise Atkins that she was ——4 when filmland beauty Sharon Tate and fouxyothers were slain spur- red police today to check information that the actress. knew her murderers. | Richard Caballero, attorney | for the 21-year-old Miss aed said she will give the County Grand Jury an eye-witness ac- count of the gruesome Aug. 9 killings at the secluded Benedict Canyon estate. i She also told the lawyer, he yp said, that the Tate murderers reportedly told Caballero: ’ was told to go and I went.” also killed Leon La Bianca wealthy market chain owner, and his wife, Rosemary, in their | Los Feliz district home 24 hours! later. These victims, she declared, were picked at random by be- whiskered Charles M. Manson, 34, self-styled “redeemer”, sing- er, and leader of a hippie “‘fam- ilu2of-which she was_a_mem- ber. _In the latest sens opment, Mj foreman p Ranch in Sanf& Susana Pass, where the Manson “family” headquartered, told The Her- ald-Examiner that Miss ‘Tate visited the hippie community. several times. The ranch, which features a western atmosphere, is often visited by Hollywood personali- ties. It is on the main road into Ventura County out of Chat- sworth. Two Los Angeles police detec- tives questioned Armstrong yes- terday and he told them he re- called seeing Miss Tate at the ranch, where she talked to Man- son. He said he did not know whether the meeting was casual or whether they had prior ac- quaintanceship. Miss Atkins, through her at- torney, said she went to the murder site at the behest of |Manson, following his orders in ;“almost a hypnotic trance.” Asked why she was at the ate killing scene, Miss Atkins I he described Manson as a «SHINN penn.” aft waned ’