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Teen Arson Suspects Weep at Family’s FuneralPARKERSBURG, W. VA.(AP) — Susan and Rodger Bailey wept Wednesday at the funeral of their parents and 10 brother* and sisters — killed in a Are that police say theyoungsters admitted setting.‘'Never in the history of this valley — or possibly the nation — has anything like this ever happened, the minister told the sobbing children andmourners.The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bailey and children ranging from 6 months to 1? years old, all burned beyond recognition, mated in six cloth-covered wooden caskets grouped in the funeral home parlor,AoosmpMiy YoungstersDuring the eulogy by the Rev. R. L. Phillips of the Bap-tist Gospel Temple, 15-year-old Susan buret into sobs and buried her tatr-stained face into ft* tfiouMerof Sheriff Lee W. Bechtdd.Beehtold and a deputy escorted the slim, yellow-minisklrted brunette and her 13-year-old brother into the funeral home. Hie officer* never left the youngsters.Susan and Rodger neither talked to each other nor to any of the some 250 relatives and family friends attending the funeral.The boy and girl wart hustled away in a sheriff* car before the coffin* war* removed for the 30-intit trip for burial at Elisabeth, in neighboring Wirt County.Beehtold said Susan and Rodger, who are being detained at die county Jail at Elizabeth, would not be permitted to attend the gravesideceremonies.Both await continuation of a preliminary hearing, tentatively *«t for June H. State law call* for all person*charged with a capital crimeto be tried in the tame manner a* adults.Maxima PwlahmrtMaximum punishment under a murder conviction in West Virginia is life in prison without parole.Among those attending tha funeral was the family’s only other surviving child, Judy Fury, 20, of Joliet, HI. Hi* tone survivor of the fire, the children's grandfather, Otte Bailey, M, and hi* wifi wire there.About 90 persons gathered on the sidewalk aero*! from the funeral home to view proceedings.Angry at FarealePolice said both youngsters confessed to relatives to setting the gasoline-fed blast, which swept through the family's eight-room frame home Sunday.Relatives turned the ohil-dree ever to police, authorities said.A family number and police said Susan was angry at her parents. They said Susan had been ordered not to date an U-ysar-old youth who isher first coutoa.Mrs. Fury told police Susan and her parents had been fighting for a week over whether ehe should date theyouth.Arm in vestige tors eatdgasoline had been splashedthroughout the houee Re house burned Uko a ptooeet paper, witoeeetc said.Susan and •leaped the flams* because they were sleeping in a two-room structure behind the houee.The grandfather, whoescaped by breaking through a window, said; There was nobody sleeping back there ... they were supposed tobft steeping to the house.”Rodger said they rapidly spreading
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Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Thu, Jun 12, 1969
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