Stone's Sex Case Decision Brought Call for Removal

A resolution was introduced on Beacon Hill yesterday calling for the removal of Judge Arthur P. Stone '93 from the bench of Cambridge's Third District Court.

Judge Stone, known to many members of the University for his handling of the Yale rioters and the Lampoon "obscenity" case this fall, has become the subject of legislative investigation because of his release of William F. Bonell Jr., confessed sex offender, on Monday.

The removal proposal, initiated by Joseph F. Leahy, would require the approval of the Joint rules Committee and the support of four fifths of the members of both houses of the legislature before it could be considered by governor Paul A. Dever.

Leahy's action followed an order approved yesterday, which asked the Administrative Committee of District courts to make an investigation of the dispensation of sex cases during the past five years. The order also asked the committee to determine whether Judge Stone "should be retired because of advanced age or mental or physical disability."

Bonell, who claimed to have taken part in a number of sex offenses in Cambridge and other Boston areas, many of which he could not possibly have been a party to, yesterday pleaded not guilty to two charges of violations in Malden in February.