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i Philadelphia Dally News Friday. Feb. 3. 1984 3 1 1 mm 1 By JACK McGUIRE Daily News Staff Writer The son and daughter-in-law of fundamental-; ist minister B. Samuel Hart, whose nomination to the U.S.

Civil Rights Commission stirred national controversy in 1982, were found slain yesterday in their Mount Airy home. The couple had been dead for nearly two days. Their 7-month-old daughter had crawled to the body of her mother in a second-floor bathroom and was found alert, although suffering from dehydration and malnutrition, police said. She was taken to Einstein Medical Center, Northern Division. The husband and wife had been bound hand and foot, gagged with thick tape and their heads submerged in water, detectives said.

Police said the body of Bradley Hart, 26, an executive with the family's radio station, was found in the basement of the two-story row-home on Pleasant Street near Musgrave, the head submerged in a pail of water. The body of his wife. Fern, 31, was found draped over the tub in the bathroom, the head under water, police said. Police said an autopsy was scheduled for later today, but preliminary indications were that the couple had been strangled. Thick, silver duct tape was knotted about their necks, detectives said, and covered their eyes as well as all of Mrs.

Hart's face. Their hands had been bound behind their backs with a combination of tape and neckties, police said. Both bodies were fully clothed and bound at the ankles, detectives said, although the pants of Mrs. Hart's sweatsuit had been pulled down to the ankles. Her undergarment was in place and it appeared she had not been sexually assaulted.

The house had been "selectively searched," detectives said, and left in a reasonably neat condition. Detectives said it appeared the intruders knew what they were looking for and it did not seem to be drugs. The couple's rented 1984 Buick Century was found at 2 a.m. today on Tioga Street near 10th by members of a police stakeout team. It was taken to the police garage at 26th and Master streets and examined.

The Harts were last seen by neighbors as they entered their home about 9:30 Tuesday night, police said. Hart," a Drexel University graduate, was business manager of WYIS, a radio station owned by his father in Phoenixville, Chester County. Fern Hart, a graduate of Houghton University in Houghton, N.Y., had worked for a Center City travel agency before her baby, the couple's only child, was born. She was a native of Nassau, the Bahamas. Hart's brother, Tony, 30, general manager of WYIS, said his brother's home had been burglarized twice before Christmas and that his-brother had installed bars on his windows and a burglar alarm system.

The Rev. Hart, 52, who helped police enter his son's house yesterday by kicking in the door himself, became a controversial figure in February 1982 when President Reagan nomi- ST" Lai Stall Photography by E.w. Fatrcloth A neighbor weeps outside the Mount Airy home of the slain couple said that when he and police entered the I house, they heard a noise upstairs. I i "We went up," Hart said, "and found Lisa nated him for a vacancy on the Civil Rights Commission. An evangelical minister who has founded a number of fundamentalist churches in the Philadelphia area, Hart was criticized by political figures and civil rights groups for his conservative views on such matters as homosexuality, abortion, women's rights and communism, as well as his voting record and financial and tax problems, since resolved, concerning his radio station.

He asked the president to withdraw his name a few weeks later. The radio station broadcasts gospel music and religious programs. The killings were discovered after Tony Hart returned yesterday from a convention in Washington. He said he went to the radio station and found that his brother had not been there for two days. "I called his house and got no answer," he said.

"I notified police and they asked me to meet them at the house." They found the doors locked. Tony Hart notified his father, who lives nearby. B. Samuel Hart, in an interview in the parking lot of the Police Administration Building, crawling out of the bathroom. She must have come out when she heard us downstairs.

I picked her up and then we looked into the bathroom." He said the baby apparently had crawled from a bedroom into the bathroom and remained by her mother's body. A further search of the house led to the discovery of his son in the basement, the minister said. Hart said he took his granddaughter to his home, "gave her some warm milk," and then took her to Einstein, where the little girl was admitted in stable condition. The victims' home is in a modest rowhome neighborhood where, according to neighbors, there is little crime. Hilton Watts, 76, who lives next door, said in addition to the burglaries at the Hart home, a across the street was burglarized recently, but that had been the extent of the crimes there.

B. Samuel Hart: national controversy 'Sick' Tch3? to Learn Dark Side of Moonlighting Most of the employees are members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, the union that represents most of the district's teachers. A PFT official confirmed the suspensions, but repeated efforts this week to reach union President Marvin Schuman for comment were unsuccessful. School employees are permitted to hold second jobs, but in 1981 the school board passed a resolution forbidding them to receive income while on sick leave. ceived, sources said this week.

The worker to be fired reported sick for more than SO days while on the postal payroll, sources said. The others were out as few as two days and Clayton decided to tailor the length of the suspensions to the number of days the employees were illegally moonlighting. "It will not be business as usual. We will not tolerate anybody ripping off the school system," said one high-ranking school official who asked not to be identified. showed they were working as temporary postal employees during the Christmas mail rush while allegedly out sick from their school system jobs, sources in the school district told the Daily News.

Superintendent Constance E. Clayton is expected to recommend the firing of one of the workers at Monday's Board of Education meeting. The other 24 have been suspended for varying numbers of days and ordered to repay the district for the sick pay they re By JUAN GONZALEZ Daily News Staff Writer Legionnaire's Disease it isn't. A better name might be the "postal" flu. But 25 School District employees who were struck by the mysterious "illness" before Christmas last year have found it will cost them more than they bargained for.

School officials decided to discipline the employees after a computer cross-check of district payrolls with the Post Office payroll.