Show THREE SLAIN GIRLS BURIED BURlED ON HILLSIDE Cumberland Valley Folk Lay Babes in Woods in Little Cemetery y Suffer SuHer the little children to come comento unto nto Me and forbid them not for of such i. i is the kingdom of heaven The passage from St. St John was Intoned intoned intoned in in- toned over the graves of the three babes in the woods as in strangers' strangers kind hands they were buried on a Pennsylvania hillside Their final Cinal resting place was far from the homes they had known kno in Salt Lake City There was no father ther no mother no loving relatives to mourn at the graveside v vOne One hundred mil miles s away awa- awain in another mother Pennsylvania town lay the bodies o ol of Elmo J. J father of ot two of the children and stepfather of ot the third and his niece of 01 18 years Winifred Pierce ere I When people of Pennsylvania's Cumberland valley buried led the children chil chi dren with tenderness they would have shown their own om they wrote the closing elming clos elm ing irig lines to a story of family strife and adversity that was stranger than fic lic fic- fic lion tion For the story of Norma Sedgwick and md Dewilla and Cordelia and the tragedy that claimed their lives and those of the two adults was one that might have come from the pen of oC ofa oCa a Hurst or a Dreiser so replete was it with human emotions and the seamier side of or ex existence ence An Associated Press dispatch from Los Angeles disclosed that Norma died believing the man who had taken her from Roseville was her father Cather Mrs Grace Davis of ot Los Angeles aunt o f the children said that J lier sis sister t ri rne N ler r k a few v months a after ter the birth of ot Mr Sedgwick's wicks wick's child and d brought her up in inthe inthe inthe the belief beliet was her fatherA father A possible fight for possession of the childrens children's bodies loomed as press dispatches said Noal c relatives in Roseville would make a claim Their copt was that had cared for the children since their mothers mother's death However there must mUt have been a adelay adelay adelay delay on the part of 01 the Cal California people in pressing claims as a United Press ss dispatch from Carlisle said the funeral plans were speeded after arter sta state stale police doubting intentions of oC I. I Continued on Pare Face Two SLAIN CHILDREN SLEEP ON HILL Babes in Woods Buried Near Scene of Mountainside Mountain Mountain- side Tragedy I Continued d from rue Page One i the Californians withdrew a request I to hold the bodies longer longcr The feud that has ha embroiled the families for tOl years broke out again Friday In Roseville where two sisters sis sis sis- tens lers of Mrs received 90 day suspended jail sentences for disturbing the peace the Associated ed Press reported Russell Pierce nephew of ot the two women and brother of ot Winifred Wini Wini- fred red Pierce lodged the charges Young Pierce charged tho the two sisters sisters sisters sis sis- sis sis- abused and cursed his mother moth moth- er Mrs Pearl Pierce another sister sister sis sis sis- ter of The two other sisters Mrs Winnie Winnie Winnie Win Win- nie Chaffin Chartin and Mrs Kate Kato Gibby had gone to the Pierce home to inquire about Winifred's deformed foot toot which aided in Identification of the body While The American Legion and sympathetic citizens Of or Carlisle Pa Pl were gathered at the simple and brief brIet funeral stricken grief relatives in Salt Lake City were trying desperately desper to arrange for lor the three little bodies to be brought to Salt Lake City for burial beside their mother Mrs Mary Isabel In City cern cemetery The father of Norma Roland Sedgwick wick vick of ot Bountiful and the aunt of all three girls Mrs M. M R R. H. H Shockley of or West Fourth South street were exhausting ever every possibility Mrs J J. J E. E Taylor of West South Temple street maternal grandmother grandmother grand grand- mother of the children was seeking some ome means of ot claiming the bodies But money was a barrier to any of ot them hem going to Pennsylvania An aftermath to the strange drama dramn a race between two families to claim Ithe he the bodies may develop Wire dispatches dis- dis patches said California survivors of ot foakes planned to go to Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania and arrange arram e for the bodies to tobe toe toI be e taken to California with those of loakes and the Pierce girl Wire dispatches also related how hundreds of ot persons many of them children stood in a downpour of ot ofrain ofrain rain at the funeral 1 Burled Near Mountain The haired fair babes in the woods were borne to graves not far tar from rom the mountainside where they I were found after strangulation had ended their wandering and hungry existence The girls were lowered one by one Norma the eldest on the south Cordelia Cordelia Cordelia Cor Cor- delia the youngest on the north and Dewilla in the middle just as they were found beneath a pine tree a week ago today The intonations of ot two Protestant clergymen and a Catholic priest droned over the little white casket Khaki Khaki clad clad Boy Scouts stood at attention attention attention at at- beside the fresh graves Beside Beside Beside Be Be- side them were arrayed veterans of the American Legion post which collected col col- funds for the rites Huge bouquets of flowers Clowers sent by townspeople banked the caskets A Boy Scout bugled taps to climax the semi semi military military services Freshly clothed in snow white Voile dresses cotton stockings and black alack shoes the bodies were ere viewed for Cor or the last time Friday FridlY night The Thc bodies of or and Miss Pierce who authorities believe died by ay hand after the children had lad been strangled were held at Duncanville Pa awaiting word from Roseville Cal i It Il vas was from Roseville that Miss 1 Miss Pierce and the three children disappeared mysteriously November 10 apparently bent on escaping from town own gossip and a family feud Since the summer of or 1932 1032 soon soon after the death of ot his wife wiCe in Salt SaIt I Lake ake City and the children had lived in seville His niece had cared for the girls while he worked i I |