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“Wiovie Ranch Where Hippie Band Stayed Scene of Hunt BY DIAL TORGERSON and RON EINSTOSS Times Staff Writers Sheriff's deputies searched a mo- vie ranch near Chatsworth Wednes- day for a missing stunt man authorities believe may be a victim of the band of hippies accused of the Tate and La Bianca murders. As three young women charged with murder were arraigned at the Civic Center, deputies began a hunt for a tall, powerful horse wrangler and beerhall bouncer named Donald O'Shea, 40, missing since August. The three women who appeared in court Wednesday were agcused - of taking part in seven murders, and one of them was charged earlier with killing an eighth man whose death has been attributed to the same band. O'Shea could be the ninth victim of the group, police said. Detectives are known to be investigating the possibility the cult may have been linked to as many as 12 deaths. Officers searched the Spahn Ranch at Chatsworth until dark without success. Two sheriff's deputies were injured when a rock wall collapsed as they probed a well for some sign of the missing man. In other ramifications to the Tate- La Bianca slayings: —Charles Manson, 35, bearded, longhaired leader of the hippie group known as the Manson Family, was to be arraigned today on charges of conspiracy and murder. —Dist. Atty. Evelle J. Younger said he mav comment today on a strict no-publicity rule imposed by the judge who arraigned three former members of Manson's group Wednesday. —Sheriff's officers said they would resume a search of the Spahn Ranch today—apparently acting on infor- mation given by one of the witnes- ses at the County Grand Jury inquiry which indicted the three young women, Manson, and a man and woman now in custody in other states, Members of Manson's group claimed that he wielded an almost hypnotic power over them, ordering them to kill Sharon Tate and four others at her estate Aug. 9, then Leno and Rosemary La Bianca in the Los Feliz district the next night. George C. Spahn} 80, owner of the ranch at Chatsworth, said Wednes- day that Manson and his group were living at the ranch against his will at the time of the murders. Last summer, before he disap- a and Manson argued,