sage te "BAST ST. Lous, 1. (AP) ~The mother of {children who died ina house fire as: they slept unattended had » often left her children alone and said they were "too bed for anyané: else to watch," a - neighbor Virginia Willams, %,. was held in the city jail while police. . in- vestigated ithe’: blaze, : which broke out early -. Sunday morning .and’- ‘ rodred ‘through ‘the brick house. No charges were filed : Lieut,. Norman’ Stevens of the fire department said.a space heater in a ‘downstairs living room was to blame for the fire. One: respons bility juvenile Gregory. Cox, 3 authorities ‘had. spoken -_ affairs, * sald with - Willams ‘several Hnags in the rat boat ‘i leaving her 12 children - unattended. - “She fold me that her’ - 1-yearold girl kept an eye on the other kids all the time," seighbor ’ Ethel Bobo said of: Williams, - with -. for: eye on the kids, but she ‘told me they were too. . bad for anyone cise to - watch,” she ‘said. “But f su ianen réoep tn an who -.was’” - pregnant at the time a they. didn’ - clothes.” - Eleven ‘of. Williams's : children, eas a have . any" aged . 10 i the ‘plains. broke out shortly after 2 . tenths t> ‘IL years, , - “were home when the fire : policeman. | Williams. / authorities she had been : . riding: around “at - the An East St, Lovis “told “mmoke ob then — — bey : _ never made" 9” aes _ Maes Carl So ‘MI kicked that wa’ : ~ door open aid cailed to’ : “said | Lonzo.. . - the street. “I could hear”: : their liltie. feet pitting. But - the | time ‘of the fire.” When’, se rea ming; ‘ ‘Lordy, Londy: Why my “The {bh 7 charges | brought: .. officials ". she asrivedat the seene, a im “She just turned away ~~ « GW aot New barre accidental’ oaths.