Albemarle, March 11—Two negro children, ages 3 and 6, were burned to death this morning about 9 o’clock at Badin when the home of Lewis Gerry was destroyed by fire. Gerry’s wife, the mother of the children, was down town at the time making purchases for the midday meal, and the father himself was at work in the Aluminum plant and did not know of the tragedy until it was all over.
A nearby neighbor discovered the fire in time to rescue two of Gerry’s children and got a third nearly to the door but was unable to get it further, with the result that it perished in the burning building. No one seems to know how the building caught fire nor why the children did not get out of their own accord.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, March 12, 1926
Notice the difference in expectations shown in the final sentence of this article. The children were 3 and 6 years old. The conclusion is "No one seems to know. . . why the children did not get out of their own accord."
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