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Yesterday And Today—Manson Left A String Of Crimes BehindBy SHIRLEY DONNELLYDr. Byrd E. White, M.D., of Spanishburg writes that he thinks il is highly unlikely that Charles Manson ever lived in the Prosperity area of Raleigh County.Dr. White, retired V.A.Hospital surgeon and a major in WW plt;:: *■'****'II, suul me some of | the highlights of the California weirdo who is now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for the atrocities that he and his “family” did out there in the “screwball” state of the nation.According to the notes of the Wolf Creek Hollow surgeon, Charles Manson was bom to “No Name Maddox,” on Nov. 12, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio, He was the bastard son of a sixteen-year-old girl named Kathleen Maddox. •His mother would leave the child with neighbors and disappear for days and even weeks at a time. Usually his grandmother or maternal aunt would claim him. His early years were spent with one or the other in West Virginia, Kentucky, or Ohio.MANSON'S mother was in prison from 1932 to 1942 for robbing a Charleston, W.Va., service station. During the lime she svas in the penitentiary the boy lived with his aunt and uncle in McMechen, up-state between Wheeling andMoundsville.In 1942 his mother was paroled and redeemed her son, then eight years old. The following years were said to have been as a “blur of run-down hotel rooms and newly introduced uncles,” but the location of those places they stayed is not given.In 1947, Manson*s mother triedto place the boy in a Foster home. None being available the lad was sent by the court to the Gibrault School for Boys in Terre Haute, Ind. He was 10 years old.Ten months later 'the boy ran away from the school and returned to his mother, who did not want him. When the boy ran off again, caught during a burglary; he wasplaced in a juvenile center in.Indiana polls, from which he escaped the next day.MANSON WAS in various institutions such as reform school, et cetera in the Hoosler state. When he was 13 he was picked up for armed robbery in Illinois. Similiar‘Scoop’ Draws Senator’s IreWASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-JVash.,agreed Friday under bipartisan fire from fellow senators to withdraw Senate investigators from the hunt in Michigan for the body of former Teamsters Union president James R, Iloffa.Both Sen. Abraham A. Ribiuoi'f, D-Conn., chairman of the Government Operations Committee, andPhtiHiic U Til itoJackson, the subcommittee chairman, declined to say anything further to newsmen.11 was learned, however, that the meeting was initiated by Sen. Charles II. Percy, R-Ill., who reportedly-told . Jackson he was “outraged” at the manner in which the search for I-Ioffa’s body was conducted.crimes he committed In Washington, D.C. as well as in Ohio and Virginia.Manson was paroled from the federal reformatory at Chillicothe,Ohio, in 1954 when he was 19. Hereturned to relatives in MeMechen, W.Va. where he married a 17-year-old girl.He stole a car and left W.Va. from Wheeling. Arriving in California he stole a second ear at Los Angeles in July 1955. His pregnant. wife was with him. In California he was in his element.THERE IN California, Charles Manson formed one of those families that “slays” together. Their crimes resulted in death sentences but in California they do not have capital punishment, so life sentences became the Lot of Manson and some of his family.The Manson “family” trials in California lasted nine and one-helf months and was most expensive,costing about a million dollars.Members of the jury who sat in the case were sequestered 225 days, longer than any jury before il. The transcripts of the case ran to 31,716 pages and comprised about a million words.The Manson murder trial was the longest murder trial in the history of America. In common with Dr. White, the details of the Manson story are enough to gal a maggot!In these days when parental discipline, to say nothing of the lack of descipline in public schools, the Manson case affords room for thought.There is rebellion today in' society against authority and it bodes no good for the future of the United States unless something is done to stop, or at least, curb it.
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