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...admitted, Edith and Helga R. Hughes were one and the same person. It was his wife who deposited two of the three checks (one came by mail); it was she who had thereafter withdrawn the money in cash, carrying it off in airline bags...
...that, he insisted, was the extent of his lying in the affair. He declared that, contrary to the bank's version, Edith had never endorsed any of the checks in the presence of bank personnel. He claimed that he had given all of the checks to Howard Hughes during their various meetings when they were taping the story of Hughes' life. Hughes, said Irving, had endorsed the checks and then handed them back to Irving with the understanding that Irving, for a fee of $100,000 from Hughes, was to salt the money away in a Swiss bank...
...pressures on Irving began to build. Swiss police asked him to come to Zurich, pointedly requesting that he be sure to bring Edith along. The Swiss authorities were acting at the instigation of McGraw-Hill, which had originally planned to publish the Hughes book in March. Much of the information the police worked with had been gathered by LIFE, which was to excerpt the autobiography in three issues this month.* They also had an interest all their own, since Helga had employed a forged Swiss passport in opening the Zurich account. On the other side of the Atlantic, there...
Irving chose the U.S. rather than Switzerland, flying to New York in midweek with Edith and their two children. After a private session in Hogan's office, Irving and his attorney, Martin Ackerman, were holding a late-night post-mortem in Ackerman's town house when TIME'S Frank McCulloch and John Goldman of the Los Angeles Times angled their way in. Until then, Irving had never varied in pitch or detail his account of the entire Hughes caper, as he traced and retraced his steps under intense questioning. This time he cracked...
According to Irving, Edith made six visits to the bank, each time covering her dark blonde hair with a brunette wig, wearing glasses and heavy makeup and speaking very bad German-despite the fact that she is German-born. As soon as each check cleared, Irving claimed, Edith withdrew the money and "took it across the street" to another, unnamed Zurich bank, where she deposited it to await Hughes' instructions for pickup...