Courier-Post from Camden, New Jersey • Page 9

COUP Cfl -POST. Camdi, H.J..Tuwdy. April 16. 1974 Children Die in Cause of Sleep Fire Fatal to 3 Still Unknown BY GEORGE AN AST ASIA Courier Post Staff GffiBSTOWN-Offieials believe a fire that killed three children here early Sunday morning started in the kitchen of their two-story West Broad Street home and swept through the second story bedrooms where the children were sleeping. The cause of the fire is still undetermined and an inves Karen Dowdy was reportedly babysitting the two younger children.

Mrs. Waldron. her mother, and the three children moved to the home at 39 W. Broad St. in January.

Mrs. Waldron was separated from her husband, according to police. She rented the home from Herbold Wag-nere son of the township mayor. Stewart Pine, a next door couldn't get up the stairs Pine was treated for first degree burns of the forehead and chest and second degree burns of the right arm. Two firemen were also reported injured fighting the fire.

Fire gutted the interior of the house and heat from the blaze buck ltd the aluminum siding on the side of Pine's house that faced the Waldron's kitchen. The children, pronounced' dead at Underwood-Memorial Hospital, Woodbury, died of asphyxiation. A funeral Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Church of the Assumption, White Horse Pike. Atco.

Burial will be in new St. Mary's Cemetery, Bell-ma wr. neighbor who discovered the fire and who was injured attempting to rescue the children, said yesterday he believed the fire started in the kitchen. Pine said he and his wife were preparing for bed Sunday morning when he looked out his bedroom window and saw flames in the Waldron's kitchen. Mrs.

Pine called the fire department while her husband first tried to douse the blaze with a garden hose, then attempted to reach the children by breaking down the front door. "The doorknob was red hot." Pine said yesterday. "I kicked in the door, but smoke just poured out of the doorway and I Child Neglect Is Charged In Death of Daughter Day Care Center To Hold Open House The open house is being planned to familiarize the community with work being done at the center. The center is a training facility for brain injured, retarded children and adults. CourerPrst Ptwto bv BoB Barlow ANGLING for the best spot and the first catch are kids trying their luck in the Square Circle Lake in Gibbsboro.

Good weather and a new trout season that opened last Saturday were responsible for the large turnout. MT. HOLLY- The Burlington County Day Care Training Center, Woodlane Mt. Holly, will hold an open house and bazaar on May 11 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

OmO fa tigation by township and county fire officials was expected to continue today. Killed in the blaze were Karen Dowdy. 12. James Dowdy. 4.

and their stepsister. Alexis Waldron. 3. The children's mother. Mrs.

Rosemary Waldron, and their grandmother, Mrs. Mildred Begyn, were not home at the time of the fire which officials believe started about 1:30 a.m. at her home late Thursday night by detectives from the county prosecutor's office. Her husband, Roger, also 35, was not charged. Police said he is a petty officer in the Navy stationed in Washington, D.C.

According to police he returned home to Mantua on the average one weekend per month. nn Ford Mustang sucker once icr base 7 door. orep.deslmat.on chdrges. hlle on nil The nine other Phillips children have been sent to live with relatives in Ohio pending the outcome of the case. No date has yet been set for the plea hearing.

Mrs. Phillips faces a maximum three-year prison term and $10,000 fine if convicted on the child neglect charge yw Ja(fi Ford Pinto, stingy 2000cc four the right car at the right or optional V-6. BY GEORGE ANASTASIA Courier-Post Staff WOODBURY-A 35-year-old Mantua Township woman has been charged with child neglect in the Feb. 19 death of her five-month-old daughter. Mrs.

Linda Phillips of the 300 block of Jackson Road in the Center City section of the township was released on $10,000 bail Saturday pending a plea hearing in Gloucester County Court here. She is charged with neglect in the death of her daughter, Betty Louise, who died at Underwood-Memorial Hospital two days after being admitted in February. A spokesman in the county prosecutor's office said the child died as a result of malnutrition. She was admitted to the hospital suffering from severe malnutrition and bed sores, he said. At the time of her death, the spokesman said, the infant weighed less than six pounds.

She weighed seven pounds 13 ounces at birth, he said. Mrs. Phillips, who has nine other children was indicted on child neglect charges last Wednesday by a county grand jury. The indictment was impounded pending her arrest. The prosecutor's office released details of the case Monday.

Mrs. Phillips was arrested New Moves On Sites For Gaming Courier-Post Bureau TRENTON A move to introduce a new casino gambling resolution designating Atlantic City as the only site was scrapped today. Assemblyman Steven P. Perskie, D-Atlantic, confirmed this at a press conference at which he also reported the Byrne administration will throw its full wieght behind a pending referendum proposal that will permit Atlantic City to be designated later as the only gaming site. Perskie said the support of Gov.

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