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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, January 20, 1990

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The death of Carol Stuart left who was shot and killed on oct. 23, 1989, generated a wave of National sympathy for her husband Charles who told police they were attacked by a Black gunman. Below Boston police approach the stuarts car that night. Eath and deceit the Stuart Case at right two of the Stuart Brothers Matthew top and Michael. At far right Charles Stuart who committed suicide after Matthew told police his version of How Carol Stuart was killed. By Fox Butterfield with Constance l Hays new York times a after dinner at a restaurant Las september a close Friend Sas. Charle Stuart complained that he had notice something about his pregnant wife Ca Oll hat he had never seen before that she had the upper hand in their marriage As the fiend David f Maclean recalled Stuart was upset that his wife had refused to gel an abortion he was worried that she would not go Back to her 0b As a lawyer after giving birth lowering the couple s income Stuart then made a startling proposal. Maclean said he asked for help in killing Carol Stuart this account by Maclean May be the closest anyone can get to the mind of Stuart who the police now suspect shot and killed his wife and then seriously wounded himself in the stomach on oct 23 As part of an elaborate and tragic scheme Maclean s account was Given m an   a cab to Ana he is believed to have repeated it to a grand jury in collating the Case at Iho Timo of if shootings Stuart told the police trial the couple had been attacked a a Black gunman after the left a childbirth c ass at a nearby Hospital his Story unleashed racial passions in Boston and touched off a wave of National sympathy for Stuart his slain wife and their prematurely delivered son Christopher who died 17 Days after the shooting but on Jan 4 12 Houis after his youngest brother. Matthew told investigators he had taken part m the incident. Stuart apparently leaped to his death from the Tobin Bridge Over the Edge of Boston Harbor much about the Case remains Uncertain but friends relatives and Law enforcement officials now say Luarl May have been consumed by his own rapid financial Success to was a Man who had gone from being a Short order Cook in a bar a decade ago making $4 an hour to the manager of a fur Salon on Newbury Street earning More than $100,000 last year. Ii was a Long journey from his Hometown of Revere a Blue Collar Community Best known for its dog track and neighbourhood bars to the affluent environs of Newbury Street with its fashionable boutiques and crowded restaurants in Boston s Back Bay and in was a Long passage from the vocational school where Stuart studied culinary arts to his 0b at the furrier Kakas & sons with a lawyer wife a car phone and a Sale Blue House in a comfortable suburb with a swimming Pool and Jacuzzi but Charles Luarl. Who turned 30 on Doc 18. Seemed to hunger for More neighbors said to talked of opening a restaurant and to attended a course last Spring at the Boston Center for adult education called buying and operating a restaurant successfully his instructor says investigators say that for now their Best guess is that he wanted to collect on several life insurance policies held by his wife which Are known to have amounted to at least $182.000, but even his relatives Are still not sure they understand How Stuart. A tall handsome affable Man who had never been in trouble with the Law before or displayed a flair for the imaginative could have devised such a bizarre scheme. This was not the Chuck i knew it must be another Chuck said Stephen f Reardon a Cousin and co owner of Reardon s bar in Revere it must have been a Chuck with a sick thing inside of him " or Robert Coles a psychiatrist a Harvard University and author of books on moral development behoves Stuart Vas an extreme example of a psychopath an anti social personality with Little sense of remorse a propensity to lie and often an ability to deceive others into believing his fantasies 1 in most psycho Alris there is cruelty and callousness but Stuart outdoes that Coles said he said the Case was not so much about Boston Page 14 stars and stripes saturday i  
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