European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5 ones mourned at funeral Union . A a single White coffin stacked with yellow roses enclose the. Bodies of two Young Brothers pre Cious jewels whose drowning was mourned by hundreds who crowded into Small country Church on sunday. David Smith with bowed shoulders and a handkerchief stifling his sobs Fol Lowed As the casket holding his sons 3 year old Michael and 14-month-old Alex was wheeled from the Church. The boys Mother Susan Smith was absent behind bars and charged with murder by strapping them into their car seats and sending her Mazda rolling into alake., / _ /. About 300 people crowded into the Buffalo United methodist Church for the 45-minute service where ministers assured mourners that the children were Inlet Terhand. Sometimes god takes from us the most precious jewels in life so he can give them ack to us in eternity the  Gilliland said. Outside the Gray sky hanging Over the cemetery matched the mood of this Tex tile town. The boys were found at the Bottom Flake John d. Long on thursday. Nine Days earlier their Mother 23-year-Oldsusan Smith told police a Man with a gun took her car and her children an drove off. Pauline Zile is arrested Friday by Polke sgt Edward Brocho in Stuart Fla. Mom charged in beating death West Palm Beach. Fla a a woman who concocted a tale of her. 7-y�ar-old daughter abduction from a Flea Market Bath room was charged with murder in the girl s beating death. Pauline Zile 24, who had pleaded hysterically Oil television for the re turn of Christina Holt was charge Friday a week after her husband 32 year old John Zile was arrested an accused of beating the child to death in  Zile. Had reported Christina was abducted oct. 22 Ata fort Lauderdale Flea Market. Authorities searched for several Days until she admitted the  child s body was unearthed oct. 27 from a 5-foot-deep grave. As the Community and the nation mourned new details surfaced about Susan Smith. The state newspaper in Columbia re ported that six years ago she told police she had been sexually molested. The investigation never led to any charges the paper said quoting unidentified sources. Her allegation involved More than patting and touching a former sheriffs investigator told the newspaper. Sheriff Howard Wells and others involved in the boys disappearance investigation refused to say whether Susan Smith mentioned the allegation an whether they thought it played a role in her alleged actions. Susan Smith is under a 24-hour suicide watch at a state prison near Columbia. She was not allowed out to attend the funeral of her sons. -. Flower arrangements came from around the nation offering Bible references and tender messages to the pre Cious Little  Roxanne and Michael Taney had never met the Smiths but they drove two hours from Anderson to say goodbye to the boys. / v ,.v a. We just could t get no peace until we came said Michael Toney holding his 2-year-old son. Earlier the Toneys placed Flowers at Lake John d. Long. Joyce Bobo of Union , tosses a ribbon into Lake John d. Long on saturday where the bodies of Michael and Alex Smith were found in a submerged car. Community in a Daze Over deaths -. Al " ,. ,.-.family s neighbors by the new York time Union . On the evening of oct. 24, Susan Smith went to her Aero bics class. The next morning she took her children to a baby Sitter and went to work at her Job As a Secretary. That night investigators say Smith pulled her car to the Edge of a deep Lake stepped out put the gearshift into drive and let the car Roll Down the boat ramp into the Black water. Her two Little boys buckled snugly in their safety seats died under the Lake. To the people of Union who grew up with Smith who remember tying ribbon sin her hair when she was a Little girl who enjoyed her smile everyone Talksabout the smile it is As if there Are two  talk Over and Over about what caused her apparently to kill her own children. But nothing for Many people will Ever explain How this woman who seemed to be a perfect Mother and shard working and devout could do such a  believed her right up to the end said Juliaette Kerhulas of Smith s Story. Smith maintained that a Young Black Man had ordered her out of her Burgundy 1990 Mazda on the night of oct. 25 an then drove away with 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex in the Back seat and i defended her Kerhulas added As she took Money from a customer for a newspaper at her Bookstore in Union. The headline says Mother confesses two boys Are  live in Union county to get away from stories like this. On sunday evenings the streets Are nearly deserted because almost everyone is in  usually Means a missing stereo for Smith there is apparently nothing in Public records or in the minds of people Here that even hints at a capacity for murder. But there has been in  s Mother Linda was raised in a Mill Village in Buffalo a Community just outside Union and married a Blue Collar worker who shot himself when Susan was 5. The family was rescued from poverty whether Mother Remar ried Bev Russell a investment broker with an office on Union s Mai Smith Street. Smith was a bookworm a Well behave child not popular the Way cheerleaders and class clowns were but liked. She Wasin the National Honor society. She had always been the sweetest girl said 23-year-old Jennifer Pegram a High school classmate Smith did not go to College. She wanted to stay in Union. Sheet married High school sweetheart David Smith a clean Cut Young Man whom the local girl called  he had a secure future As an assistant manager with the Winn Dixie grocery store. She went to work at the Congo Milland worked her Way up to an office Job. She and her husband ate at Gene s Ham burgers and hotdogs on Friday nights and went to the Buffalo United methodist Church on sunday mornings. The Smith marriage which produce two children lasted just three years. Susan Smith filed for divorce in septem Ber claiming her husband cheated on her. She started dating and soon met to Findlay the son of one of the wealthiest Mill owners in a town that survives on it textile Industry. But friends said the relationship lasted just a Short while an Findlay ended it one week before Susan Smith reported the children missing. People Here have heard the possible motives that she was frustrated by the Rigours of raising a family on $16,000 a year that she was sad Over a broken marriage and the most chilling one that she May have killed the two Little boys be cause she believed Findlay would not want her because of her ready made ,.-- a to _. People Here say they might have understood the drowning of the boys if the Mother had gone mad but the most cred Ible motive that county investigators seem to have in this Case is Romance Orat least the desire for one. Findlay gave investigators a copy of a dear John letter he wrote to her that ultimately led to Smith s arrest and confession after nine Days of repeated claims that her sons had been abducted. I was not ready to assume the important responsibilities of being a father said Findlay the 27-year-old son of the owner of Canso one of Union biggest employers in a written statement. But Atno Point during the relationship he wrote did he suggest that her children were the Only obstacle in any potential relationship with  the image no one can get put of their minds is the thought of the Little boys i their seats As the water closed in. David Smith cries a lot now. His eyesore red rimmed he is Pale and every time he talks about his children he cries he does not shave every Day. He seems broken inside. He will not talk about his wife s deception but he does want to know one thin from her Why As Susan Smith was taken inside the courthouse to be formally charged on Friday Wells the sheriff put one Arm around her and draped her face with a jacket to shield her from the View of a angry jeering crowd. What i Don t understand said Catina Hopkins who was in the crowd is Why if she did t want those babies Shedin t just give them