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Section The Indianapolis Star SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1990 EmploymentMedical C8-15 Real Estate Section I Auto Section Classified Death and deception shook Boston proper ect husband turned cold killer A perfi rzJ .0 i I fi U' i 1 1 I i i j1 s': i I 1 r--- nn-f-, jf FILE PHOTO death Carol Stuart's stunned the nation mmmm In the first week of the new year. Matthew Stuart, 23, told his attorney he'd suspected Chuck had killed his wife ever since the Oct. 23 murder, although Matthew said he was not involved in the shooting. On Friday, Richard dayman, attorney for Michael Stuart, 27, disclosed to reporters that Matthew told Michael about his suspicions Oct. 26.

In addition, dayman said. Chuck and Michael had a "disjointed, vague conversation" some weeks before the murder, and Michael told Chuck: "I don't know exactly what you're talking about, but I'm not getting involved with anything, any sort of crazy thing you're talking about." Matthew has told investigators that he thought he was taking part in an insurance fraud scheme for which he was going to be paid $10,000 by his brother. He said he waited at a predetermined spot in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood and that Chuck came along at the designated time and gave him Carol's handbag containing items Matthew assumed were going to be claimed as stolen. Under Massachusetts law, no one can be charged with a crime for failing to report what they suspect, but all over Boston people are saying that Matthew and Michael had a moral obligation to come forward. "If they did know and they sat with us and cried, then it Is the ultimate hypocrisy," Carl DiMaiti said.

Details of the plot kept tumbling out last week. Chuck Stuart was the beneficiary of at least two insurance policies on his wife totaling $182,000. and authorities were said to be checking reports of at least one other policy worth more than twice that amount. Reports said See DECEPTION Page 2 By GEORGE ESPER ASSOCIATED PRESS Boston Her head lolled sideways like that of a rag doll, dark hair dangling over a contorted, bloodied face. An emergency breathing tube, useless, as it turned out, protruded from her mouth.

Who would not believe the anguished story of Carol Stuart's husband, who sat next to his pregnant wife, his-shoulder cushioning her head, his blood-splattered shirt torn wide to expose the bullet hole in his belly? Chuck Stuart, teeth gritted with pain, had barely been able to summon help on his car phone. "My wife's been shot, I've been shot. Oh. man, it hurts and my wife has stopped gurgling she's stopped breathing." Even Carol Stuart's family never doubted his story that a black gunman with a raspy voice had commandeered their car as they left a hospital birthing class, then robbed and shot them. "Never, never," said her brother.

Carl DiMaiti. "He seemed so believable. There he was lying in a hospital with tubes and intravenous and there'd never been any problem that anyone could see between him and Carol. So why would anyone doubt him?" Now, 10 days after Chuck Stuart's terrible hoax was exposed with his suicide leap off a bridge, authorities are sorting rumors and evidence, both focusing on insurance money, looking for a motive in Carol Stuart's murder and any partners in the plot. One of the most fascinating and repellent aspects of the case is the family involvement.

Two of Chuck's younger brothers, who stood at Carol's wake and carried her casket. aT FILE PHOTO as did revelations that her husband killed her. had suspected for 2'2 months that their sister-in-law had been the victim of a murder plot. A third brother, two half sisters and their parents learned of the crime in the days just before Stuart's suicide. ASSOCIATED PRESS Matthew Stuart (front left), brother of Chuck Stuart, helps carry the coffin of his Carol Stuart.

People Things 2 Japanese men return home after 45 years in Malaysian jungle calendar, which has months with 28. 29, 30 or 31 days. His calendar would have 1 3 months, each with 28 days, for a total of 364. He's soliciting suggestions on what to call the 1 3th month. To keep the revised calendar in sync with the 365-day year, Raba would have a 48-hour New Year's Day and a 48-hour Leap Year Day.

"You should have heard them clap and whoop and holler when I mentioned the 48-hour New Year's and Leap Year," Raba said of the New York studio audience. C'mon! A smiling Bob Dylan? Oh, mercy! A grinning Bob Dylan kicked off an international tour at a New Haven (Conn.) night years, so of course I was worried," said Hashimoto's sister, Klkuko Ishiwatarl, 74. Both will be hospitalized for about 10 days for medical checkups, a Health and Welfare Ministry official said. "I don't know anything about modern-day Japan," Hashimoto told reporters In a weak voice. "But I hope to learn as much as possible and do what 1 can to help the nation." When Malaya gained its independence from Britain In 1957, Hashimoto said, "we could have returned to Japan but it would have required our surrender to the Malaya government, and we chose not to do so." He said they decided to fight until the Communist Insurgency ended and they succeeded In establishing a Maoist state.

Over the years, a number of former Japanese Imperial Army soldiers have emerged from long periods of isolation In remote areas of Asia controlled by Japan during World War II. On Wednesday, the two men left the Malaysian border Jungle where they and their comrades in the Communist Party of Malaya fought for 45 years. The insurgency ended In December, when Communist leaders reached a peace agreement with Malaysian and Thai government officials. "We're Japanese, so we never forgot about Japan, even for one day," Tanaka said. "We looked forward greatly to returning to Japan, but as Japanese we couldn't leave behind the people we were fighting alongside for all those years until this opportunity." Tanaka's wife, Haruse, 72, was unable to travel to the airport because of Illness, but she watched her husband's return on television.

Several other relatives had flown earlier to Thailand to meet the men and accompanied them back to Japan. "I never doubted he was still alive, but I did not hear from him or about him for nearly 50 By TETSUO JIMBO ASSOCIATED PRESS Narita. Japan Two men who served Japan's war effort in Malaysia during World War II and remained in a remote Jungle to help Communist rebels for 45 years returned home Saturday saying they hope to help modern-day Japan. Relatives and friends greeted Shigeyuki Hashimoto, 71, and Kiyoaki Tanaka, 77, with flowers at Tokyo's Narita Airport as the men. appearing frail and weary, were taken from their plane in wheelchairs.

The two. who left in 1944 to work in a wartime Japanese iron factory in Malaysia then called Malaya said they joined Communist guerrillas after the war in 1945 to help the country gain independence from Britain, Japan's former enemy. "We fought for a long time and faced a range of difficulties," Hashimoto told reporters. "We lost touch with all of our old friends. Now only the two of us are still alive." mH mmmm I.

i 1 cXJ club with old standards and cuts from his latest album. "I never saw him smile before," said Joel Evans after watching Dylan's first set Friday night at Toad's Place to promote his critically acclaimed album. Oh Mercy. Dylan, 48, known for an extremely aloof stage presence, surprised the crowd with broad grins and extended eye contact. Racked hv a three-nipre band.

IU teacher will have her ears tuned to a prized PBS series When the series Eyes on the Prize debuts on the PBS television network this week, an Indiana University professor will be listening closely. Portia Maultsby, an associate professor of Afro-American studies and a part-time associate professor of music at the Bloomlngton campus, is a music researcher and consultant for the series that documents the civil rights movement. Lillian Dunlap, an assistant professor of broadcast Journalism at the University of Missouri, assisted Maultsby. The two identified scenes for placement of music; selected and edited music: and researched copyright documentation for four of the series' shows. They were consultants on the other four.

Eyes on the Prize II takes up where Eyes on the Prize left off in 1965 and carries the civil rights movement into the 1 980s. Maultsby was an adviser for That Rhythm Those Blues on PBS in 1 988, which won a gold award in the Chicago International Film Festival. They'll be kings of Mardi Gras Actors Dennis 9uald and John Goodman will reign over two of the most popular Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans next month. Goodman, who plays Roseanne Ban's husband on the ABC show Roseanne, will be grand marshal of the Krewe of Endymion on Feb. 24.

Quald, who burned up the keyboards as Jerry Lee Lewis in the film Great Balls of Fire, will be Bacchus the next day, carnival officials said Friday. Mardi Gras is Feb. 27. Both have several ties to Louisiana. The two starred in the 1987 police thriller The Big Easy, set in New Orleans, and Everybody's All-American, a 1988 film shot in Baton Rouge.

Goodman was married in New Orleans on Oct. 27 to Bogalusa native Annabeth Hartzog, a former student at the University of New Orleans. "I'm just nuts about New Orleans," Goodman said Friday. "It's going to be a good time for everyone. You know, man, anything goes." Didn't count on Dave's silliness Comedian David Lettennan didn't gain a new fan by having 78-year-old Gabriel Raba as a guest on his late-night talk show.

"He's a silly guy," said the New Underwood (S.D.J rancher, who appeared on NBC-TV's Late Night With David Letterman on Tuesday to discuss a 1 3-month calendar he created and had copyrighted. "He never clearly showed the calendar. He had it in his hand and was flipping it around." Raba said he was more amused by the preshow preparations than Letterman's on-the-air wisecracks. "A girl even danced with me to keep me from getting nervous." he said. "And they put makeup powder on me.

like a lady." jy 5 Raba's idea would bring order to the curreri't Wife, children watch as man is ordained a Roman Catholic priest in New York he played classics such as Rainy Dylan Day Women Nos. 12 and 35 and One More Cup of Coffee, as well as new material. The New Haven show was one of only three Dylan will play in the United States before dates in Brazil and Europe. The other U.S. shows are in State College, and Princeton, N.J.

Images of civil rights struggle The images of photojournalist Moneta Sleet Jr. document the tumbling of racial barriers in America. Sleet's photos describing the civil rights movement, life in black America and black personalities have provided the world with three decades of black history. They made Sleet the first black awarded the Pulitzer Prize for photography. He is exhibiting his photographs at the New York State Museum in Albany.

People are trying to recover from the Ronald Reagan days when the administration tried very hard to push civil rights back," Sleet says. By RHEA MANDULO UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Yonkers. N.Y. A married father of four was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest Saturday in a rare Vatican-approved ceremony that defied the church's long-standing general ban against wedded clergymen. The Rev.

Trevor Nicholls, 47, a former Anglican priest, was accepted to the priesthood under a special papal order that can be used only in the United States. Pope John Paul II Issued the special provision In 1980 at the behest of American bishops, sanctioning the ordination of converted Anglican, or Episcopalian, priests and Lutheran ministers. In the past decade, about 50 converteJpiscopalian priests have been ordained In similar cy and must provide for his family's financial needs, said Joseph Zwilling. a spokesman for the archdiocese. Since his arrival In the United States.

Father Nicholls has taught at Coleman High School, a Catholic facility In Kingston. N.Y., where he will continue to work. He lives with his wife, Marion, and two of his four children. Hannah. 10, and Catherine, 8, who attended the ceremony.

Zwilling said. His two other children. Mark. 20. and Sarah.

18. are studying at schools In England. Father Nicholls will be "able to perform all the sacraments. He can perform Mass. hear confessions and officiate at weddings.

(But) won't be sfrving in a parish itself," Zwilling said. ceremonies across the country, said Joseph Zwllling. a spokesman for the New York Archdiocese. The ceremony sparked a demonstration by about 15 protesters who demanded that the Roman Catholic Church lift its longstanding general ban against accepting married men and women into the priesthood. Father Nicholls, who converted to Catholicism in 1975, was ordained by Cardinal John O'Connor, the archbishop of New York, at a private ceremony and Mass at St.

Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, which was attended by his wife and two of his four children. Under the special papal order, he will maintain full status as a priest, although he will not be required to take a vow of celiba Sliding to win sled dog contest Three-time Alaska Iditarod winner Susan Butcher won the 1990 John Beargrease sled dog marathon in record time Saturday, finishing the grueling 475-mile race in 87 hours, 15 minutes and 38 seconds, about 10 hours off last year's record time. In second place in the race that ended in Duluth. was Vera Halter, a musher from Trapper Creek, Alaska, who finisVxl in 87 hours, 40 minutes and 50 seconds..