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A@ha-suspect, moving slowly against the crush of photographers and reporters, smiled once at the newsmen as he entered the building but said nothing. He is a short, small-boned man whose dark hair brushes against his shoulders. His beard is full but well- trimmed. He wore the standard blue denim coveralls supplied prisoners. On entering the courtroom he smiled, faintly, once again. That was when he recognized two of his "followers," ghe of whom, “a San- dr coe Pugh, 26, had an infant in ; e girl returned his - that he looked away, seeming ost to divorce himself from the proceedings. He sat down and began doodling on a piece of yellow paper. During the day, Manson spoke aloud only once, when he asked Judge Gardner: "Your honor, may I question this man?" "No," Judge Gardener replied quickly. "Not as long as you are represented by an attorney." Manson was referring to the testimony of Boyd Taylor, U.S. commissioner of the eastern district of California, one of the day's witnesses called by Fowles to estab- lish that Manson had been seen driv- ing stolen cars in the barren desert region around Death Valley. Taylor, as others, testified that he encountered Manson at 2 a.m. on a moonlit night in mid-September ear_a desert camp in the-Selins Ne Tey, about 60 miles from the per- rs manent headquarters of Manson's "Family" at the Barker Ranch in the Panamint Valley. Under questioning by Fowles and Schaefer, Taylor said that Manson, or “a man who looked very much like him," was driving a dusty blue dune buggy. The dune buggy, Fowles was attempting to establish, was stolen from the La Paz Buggy Builders in Los Angeles Sept. 11. — 4 Taylor testified that traveling with Manson that night was driving a red four-wheel-drive Toyota. Other witnesses testified that the Toyota was stolen in late September from Dennis Dale Kemp, 7020 Loyal Trail, Hollywood. Kemp, called as a witness, said his wallet was in the car when it was stolen. "The wallet was found," Fowles said, "on the Barker Ranch," when officers raided it, Oct. 10 and 24, a long-haired, County resident, said shown several caves and springs nearby. "What was Mr. Manson's relation- ship with the people at the ranch?" Fowles asked. "Very good," Gill replied. "Did there seem to be anyone in charge?" "No. Not specifically." He said he saw Manson again, and agreed to meet him to show him the country. Gill and Manson then came to his cabin with three women, "one older, two younger," and went with them to Panamint Valley: He said they were joined by two other couples, but he left the group after one day's outing. "Why?" Fowles asked again. "There wasn't any type of ill feeling," Gill insisted. "But I just felt I should leave." Mrs. Pugh, however, denied re- ports that the Barker Ranch group lived in "squalor." "It wasn't that way at all," she testified. "I lived in a clean room. We all helped with the decoration and we worked hard on the ranch, feeding and taking care of animals and tending the property. "We are desert lovers, that's.all,” she added. At the conclusion of the hearing, Manson returned to the jail—again flanked by his attorney and two sheriff's deputies. Again, he did not: speak.. He digannessed through wg lal lope. way without looking back. ~ ‘