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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) BY JERRY COHEN Times statt Writer Trouble came looking for Charles Miller Manson the day he was born —out of wedlock to a teen-age mother and a father he never laid eyes on. The place: Cincinnati. The date: Nov. 11, 1934. Not long after, he experienced life's second cruelty: His mother, who bore him when she was 16, went to prison, convict- ed along with her brother of beating up and robbing dates she hustled in riverfront bars. Lived With Grandparents Ahead lay long years of trouble, which culminated this week when Charles Manson was identified as the evil mastermind of a renegade hippie band suspected of murdering actress Sharon Tate and perhaps ten other persons. be: After his mother's imprisonment, the little boy who would become the leader of that violent band went to live in McMechen, W.Va., first with his maternal grandmother, then with an uncle and aunt who had a sour marriage and gave him little affection. When he was 8, his mother got.out n and he joined her, She (Mount Clipping in Space Below) drank and lived with a succession o men in seedy apartments. The men paid little attention t him, the mother not much more. He spent most of his time indoors, alone. In 1945, the mother followed a traveling salesman to Indianapolis and they took the boy along with them. Two years later, she tried to farm her son out to foster parents, as she occasionally had done before. But this time the law moved in. Young Manson was made a ward of the county, and sent off to the Gibault School for Boys, a caretak- ing institution in Terre Haute. After 10 months, he ran away. That escapade put him in his first correctional institution, the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield. That was the way it would be mo: of t the remainder of his life. By th “time he was 25, he had spent 1 vears in either reformatories or prison, and during the next 10 vears, before he came under suspicion for the Tate and La Bianca murders, that ratio would grow. In February, 1951, he and two other boys fled Plainfield, stole a car and wound up in Utah, where they were arrested. That made young Manson a federal problem, and he was sentenced to the National Training School for Boys in Wash- ington, D.C. He was shuffled along to other federal reformatories, an unbending adolescent, hiding loneliness, resent- ment and hostility behind an oddly ingratiating facade. Totally Unreceptive He smiled a lot, but at inappropri- ate times, according to persons with whom he came in contact. Reformatory tutors tried to train him for foundry work, furniture making, even barbering, but found him totally "unreceptive." By the time he was paroled from the federal reformatory in Chilli- cothe, Ohio, in 1954 at the age of 21 h ha a_knack for nothi Gate was no dummy"Atthe Frouble Followed Cult Leader,All His Lite (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) T-1 Los Ancreles Times Los Ance‘es, Calif. Date: 12/3/69 Edition: Wednesdey Final Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Logs Ane-les {_] Being Investigated