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Police have questioned a woman who worked with Stuart at Edward F. Kakas & Sons, a fur shop on Newbury Street where Charles was manager, the Boston Globe reported yesterday. In a search of Stuart's Reading home, police reportedly found telephone bills that indicate she had been using his credit card to call him at the hospital. They also are looking into a brooch he recently bought...
Flanagan said Stuart, a 29-year-old fur sales agent, became a suspect Wednesday after Boston police and investigators from his office interrogated several people late into the night. He said that around midnight the officers searched "some waters" in Revere for "physical evidence." He would not say what area was searched but that it was not the home there of Stuart's parents...
Moved by ethical concerns, a number of former fur lovers have defected to the other side. Davida Terry, a Lincolnshire, Ill., advertising executive, has kept her eight fur coats hidden in a closet ever since a chiding by an animal- rights supporter caused her to have a change of heart. "How could anyone wear a fur coat?" she now says. "How these animals have to suffer!" Last week, as a gesture of support, Chicago secretary Kathi Hodowal turned over her eight-year-old mink coat to Trans-Species, which uses such donations to stage mock funerals with fur-filled coffins...
...concerned about animals," she sniffs, "I think they should go to a pound and clean cages and take care of the dogs and cats. Some people have replaced their religion with animal rights." But it's a jungle out there: even women who have switched to fake furs to assuage their conscience do not feel comfortable. Many protectively wear large buttons that proclaim NO FUR or REAL PEOPLE WEAR FAKE FUR...
...fur is flying as animal activists urge consumers to leave the wraps and stoles on store hangers. Faced with stiff opposition and flat sales, the industry fights back...