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WEAVERVILLE, Calif.UPD— Daryl Moss, a 15-year-old youth leader from nearby Lewiston, was arraigned in district court today on a charge of murder for the fatal shooting of his parents. Trinity County District At torney Donald B. Kennedy said he would attempt to try the teenager as an adult. The youth—an honor student, president of his sophomore class in high school, and sec retary of his explorer scout group — shot Mr. and Mrs. Veril Moss to death early Wed nesday. The father, 43, was shot point blank in the forehead with a .22 caliber rifle as he slept. Mrs. Moss, 42, was shot in the head because she wouldn't stop screaming. Young Moss said he took a hunting rifle, $438 entrusted to his father by their Mormon church group, and $24, belong ing to the scout troop. As he left the house he used the rifle to bludgeon Jean Ann Taylor, 20, who lived with the Moss family and was awakened by the shots. The boy left in the family car, but surrendered quietly to police at a roadblock in nearby Redding a short time later. Sheriff Harold Wilson said young Moss objected to the strictness of his father, an el der in the church and an en gineer for the Bureau of Rec lamation Trinity Dam project. The youth said he planned to kill his father with a bow and arrow Saturday,but I lost my nerve. “I hated him,” the boy said. “We just couldn't get along.” When asked why he killed his mother, Daryl replied: 'T didn’t like her much, either.” After questioning the youth, district attorney Kennedy com mented: ‘This kid is very bright. You don’t have to ask him a ques tion twice. It’s the damndest, coldest thing I’ve ever seen.” Miss Taylor of Orem, Utah, a typist for the Department of Reclamation at Lewiston, was reported in good condition at the Trinity County General Hospital... The Moss couple were long time friends of the Taylor fam ily. Both families moved to California in 1957 from Idaho Falls. The Taylors then moved to Orem in December of 1960, leaving their daughter in Cali fornia to work. Veril F. Moss, 43, a civil en gineer, worked for the Bureau of Reclamation in Salt Lake City and Logan, in Palisades and Boise, Idaho, before going to California. The family left Logan in 1948. He and his wife, 42, were born and reared in Teton Bas in. They were married April 12, 1939, in Logan. The couple often visited in Idaho Falls, Rexburg and Driggs after moving to Califor nia. Mr. Moss was born July 22, 1917, at Victor. Mrs. Moss, who was Lois E. Penfold, was born March 19, 1918, at Priggs. Besides the one son, Daryl, Mr. and Mrs. Moss are surviv ed by a daughter, Marlene, 21, student at Brigham Young Uni versity, Provo, and a son, Wayne, 18, student at a Eure ka, Calif., college. Mr. Moss’ survivors include his mother, Mrs. Janie Moss, Driggs; brothers, Ray Moss, Driggs; Lyle Moss, Idaho Falls, and Ruel Moss, Craigmont; sis ters, Mrs. Jesse Hastings, Vic tor, and Mrs. Russell Christen sen, RFD 3, Idaho Falls. Mrs. Moss’ survivors include her father, Virgil Penfold, Driggs; brother,Donald Pen fold, Driggs; sisters, Mrs. Phil lip Sorenson, Driggs, Mrs. Mar lene Rainey, Boise and Mrs. Elaine May, Hollywood, Calif. President Andrew Jackson appointed Abraham Lincoln as postmaster at New Salem, NL, in 1833.
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The Herald Journal
Logan, Utah, US
Thu, Feb 23, 1961
Page 9
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