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NATION IN BRIEF : MASSACHUSETTS : Pistol in Pregnant Wife’s Death Sought

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Divers searched a suburban Boston river for the handgun that police believe Charles Stuart used to kill his pregnant wife last fall. The case had triggered outrage over inner-city crime when Stuart blamed a black gunman for the shooting. WCVB-TV in Boston, quoting an unidentified family source, reported that Stuart admitted two days before his Thursday suicide that he killed his wife Oct. 23 to cash in on an insurance policy. A boy delivered prematurely by Cesarean section also died.

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