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<text id=91TT2218>
<title>
Oct. 07, 1991: American Notes:Crime
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 27
American Notes
CRIME
Fraternal Aid
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<p> Brotherly love can make a man do strange things. On the
night of Oct. 23, 1989, Matthew Stuart pulled his car alongside
a blue Toyota parked in a predominantly black Boston
neighborhood. The driver of the Toyota, Matthew's brother
Charles, handed him a purse through the window. Accompanied by
his friend John McMahon, Matthew ditched the purse in the Pines
River. It contained the engagement ring of Carol Stuart--as
well as the .38 revolver that Charles had just used to kill his
pregnant wife and then wound himself.
</p>
<p> The murder transfixed the nation and aggravated Boston's
racial tensions after Charles Stuart, posing as a mugging
victim, called police from his car phone and sent them on a
manhunt that led to the arrest of a black suspect. Ten weeks
later, Matthew came forward and told authorities he had helped
dispose of the purse. Next day, Charles committed suicide after
reportedly telling his lawyer that he had murdered his wife to
get her life insurance. Last week a grand jury indicted Matthew
and his accomplice McMahon on nine counts ranging from
compounding a felony to unlawfully carrying a firearm. McMahon
was also charged with accessory to murder after the fact--a
charge from which Matthew, as the killer's brother, is exempt
under Massachusetts law.
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