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Mother, Who KilBaby, Heldlt;?cramthelBURLINGTON, Iowa — A _ young mother who, officers said. T put her 3-year-old daughter to bed • For a nap, then killed her with a 12-gauge shotgun, was held under guard at a hospital here Wednes-iay.The woman. Mrs. Lovita Stone,25. told Sheriff H. J. Shook ruesday only that she was “mad • it the little girl, Judith Ann Bre- e ten, her daughter by a previoui marriage. Mrs. Stone then became lysterical and was taken to the tiospital.Sheriff Shook said a first degree *Ui murder charge probably would be filed against Mrs. Stone Wedries-iay after officers had questioned at ler further about her motive for oj the slaying. It*The sheriff said Mrs. Stone tn railed his office about mid-after- oj. noon Tuesday and said: mSend someone out in the next 1015 minutes or it won’t be any use. .Deputy Sheriff Oscar Olson, who er was sent to the modest stone home jc north of Burlington, said Mrs. m Stone was at the telephone. aiI've just killed my baby, she told him.Then, he said, she took him to a bedroom and threw back the covers to show’ him the body of thechild. Judith had been shot in thehead. jThe deputy quoted Mrs. Stone as saying she had given her daugh-ter two aspirins, waited about 30 ci minutes until she was sure the 11 child was asleep, then loaded the *c‘ shotgun and shot her. CLOlson said that when he armed mMrs Stone was talking to her lufs A! band, Raymond Stone, 41, a truck fo driver. Stone has seven children blt; by his first wife, who died last of year. Five of tin* seven children ** live with the Stones.Stone said his wife had told him not to bring his children home from school, but he tad not know what had happened until he readied the house.The truck driver said Ills wife apparently was ‘ jealous of Judith Anna and had threatened pre-viously to kill the little girl. |_______________ i mVi * 1 • AB V U V r I Ail I Vite111aitliwtrRttK
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Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Wed, Oct 07, 1953
Page 6
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