Pleads guilty

Associated Press · August 20, 1962

Belleville, Ill. -- Donna Marie Stone, 14, confers with her attorneys today during circuit court appearance at which she pleaded guilty of manslaughter in gunshot slayings a year ago of Belleville man and his daughter. Court directed that she be turned over to Illinois Youth Commission, which will have custody of girl until she reaches age of 21. The Chicago schoolgirl, who had been charged with murder, and her partner, John Edwin Myer, 33, were accused of four slayings. Myer is under death sentence in Texas for one of the killings. Attorneys are Curt Lindauer Jr. (left) and Ray Norton.