3 CHARGED WITH MURDER OF FAMILY Doniphan, Mo. Jan. 20- A man convicted of automobile theft by a jury on which Robert R. Kitterman served is one of three persons charged Saturday with the killings of Kitterman, his wife and daughter last Wednesday. Dallas Ray Delay , 33 years old, was convicted of the auto theft charge three years ago.Ripley County Presiding Attorney James Hall said. Also charged with first-degree murder were Lloyd Dwaine Cowin, 20, and Jerry Wayne Rector, 22, both of nearby Van Buren, Mo. Delay has lived in Van Buren and in Valles Mines in Jefferson County, authorities said. Six more warrants for first-degree murder are expected to be issued Monday, authorities said. Delay, Cowin and Rector were arrested Friday night and are being held without bail at Bulter County jail in Popular Bluff. Prosecutor Hall charged each with three counts of murder in the deaths of Grandin banker Kitterman, 43, his wife, Bertha, 38, and their daughter Roberta, 17. The three were found tied to trees at an abandoned farm after $11,000 had been extorted from Kitterman's bank, the Bank of Grandin. Authorities said all three suspects had a long police records. Delay was said to have at least two charges pending against him in St. Louis. The men were charged in warrants Saturday in Doniphan, the county seat of Ripley County. "I feel we have the people who did it," Hall said. Hall said Delay's conviction of auto theft in Van Buren resulted in a sentence to the state penitentiary. At a 35-minute funeral service in the gymnasium of Grandin elementary school Saturday, the Rev. Russell Hamm did not mention the killings as he eulogized the Kittermans as outstanding citizens. "I don't have the words to describe this lost," the Rev. Mr. Hamm said. About 1000 persons attended the service coducted by three Ministers. Seated at the front near the three caskets were the Kittermans' surviving daughters, Kathy, 15, and Patricia , 14. Later about 100 persons accompanied the family entourage to the gravesite overlooking Little Black River near the Kitterman Farm. Many residens of this area had speculated that whoever killed the Kittermans did so because the family could have made an identification. At 10:58 a.m. Saturday authorities found what they believed is the murder weapon, a .32-cal. Automatic pistol beneath a pair of gloves in a wooded area about six miles Southeast of the place where the Kitterman bodies were found. A Highway Patrol officer in Popular Bluff said that the pistol was thought to belong to Delay. Earlier in the morning, authorities found the major part of the $11,000 extorted from Kitterman in a pillowcase, the Highway Patrol said. Authorities found a fake bomb which was believed to be the one the killer strapped to Kitterman's chest, and which Kitterman evidently believed was genuine. The device consisted of a short fuse, which Kitterman apparently thought was dynamite, a small metal box that looks somewhat like a transistor radio, and a set of wires and batteries. A sack, bearing the words "Please return to Bank of Grandin," was also recovered in the woods yesterday morning. Kitterman put the extorted money in the sack before rushing out of the bank to the place at which he and the other members of his fanily were killed. All of the recovered material was found scattered through a wooded area on either side of Highway 21 near the junction of Ripley County road NN. The site is about six miles Southeast of the point at which the Kittermans were killed. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as Popular Bluff police, the Highway Patrol and Sheriff's officers from Ripley and Carter Counties participated in the search for the articles. One report said that information supplied by one of the suspects aided in the search. Cowin and Rector were arrested at 4p.m. Friday in Popular Bluff at a garage operated by Donald Rogers. Authorities then waited nearby for Delay to appear. They arrested him at 8:20 p.m. outside the garage. The arrests were made after Butler County Sheriff Clyde Hendrix received a tip that contained substantive information, the Highway Patrol said. Hall said he believed that the tip contained information about the identity of the suspects, their whereabouts and items that might be recovered. Hall said that a shelter made out of automobile hoods had been found about 50 yards into the woods where the articles were discovered. He said it was his understanding that Delay and Cowin stayed there Wednesday night. Cowin left Thursday for Popular Bluff and Delay left for Popular Bluff on Friday afternoon, he said. Rector had gone there on Wednesday, he said. The shelter was close enough to the road so that the suspects could have seen investigators traveling on Highway 21 between Grandin and Doniphan, Hall said. Warrents charging the suspects with kidnapping and bank robbery may be issued in Carter County, Hall said, The Bank of Grandin is in Carter County, but the bodies were found in Ripley County. The men are being held at the Bulter County jail because it is a more adequate facility. Louis Shockley, Van Buren city Marshal. Said that Cowin and Rector had been involved in stealing for years and had returned from prison three or four months ago. He said they had been associates of Delay for five or six years . Delay is a close friend of Cowin's mother, he said , who is a widow. For a week before last Wednesday's murder, Delay had been staying at the Cowin home off and on, Shockley said. Delay had discussed a bank extortion, Shockley said."But he's talked about everything." Delay was probably the leader of the group, Shockley said. Delay has recently been in the Jefferson County and St. Louis areas, Shockley said, and returned to Van Buren only about 7 to 10 days ago. Delay used to own an auto parts business in Van Buren, about 30 miles West of Grandin, Shockley said, but it burned a few years ago. Hall said, the business had been raided several times by authorities who suspected that some of the parts had been stolen. Cowin and Rector come from poor families and are quiet men who rarely show much expression, Shockley said. Walter (Buck) Buerger, Jefferson County sheriff, said that Delay had been living on Cole Lake In Valles Mines in recent weeks. He was to have appeared before a Jefferson County Magistrate on Wednesday to answer charges of altering a truck identification number. Buerger began his investigation after Delay did not appear. His home in Jefferson County was staked out, and when the sheriff received a tip that Delay was in Popular Bluff, Jefferson County, authorities sent bench warrants to that city for his arrest. Jo