Stuart, shown in a 1961 photo, examining some loot, a revolver and handcuffs from a Back Bay bank robbery, knew gangsters, he said, because they were his sources for information on the underworld. In 1970, he was tried in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of being an accessory after the fact of the murder of Billy Bennett in 1967.  He was acquitted.
Read clips of the trial, including allegations that he took payoffs from Billy Bennett’s brother, Wimpy, who was murdered by Stevie Flemmi in 1967.

 

Trial news articles from April 1970