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...money question has been substantially solved. Irving admits that his wife Edith, posing as a woman named Helga R. Hughes, opened an account at the Swiss Credit Bank in Zurich, deposited the McGraw-Hill checks made out to H.R. Hughes and then withdrew the money and salted it away in several other Zurich banks. Irving claims that he made the arrangements at Hughes' request. Last week, however, a few more details of those transactions came to light...
...West German businessman named Heinz Deiter Rosenkranz, is now married to a woman named Hannah, whose West German identity card Edith evidently used in opening the account, using the diminutive Hanne. Edith forged the specimen signature to do so. In addition, Swiss authorities found that Edith's "Helga R. Hughes" passport was actually a Swiss passport that had been issued to her in the fall of 1968, after she had reported her old one missing...
...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 It was his wife who deposited two of the three checks (one came by mail); it was she who had thereafter withdrawn the money in cash, carrying it off in airline bags...
...news that Helga was actually Edith exploded like a bombshell. Its concussion immediately threw all of Irving's past assertions into a new perspective and, at the least, severely damaged his credibility. Ackerman immediately withdrew from the Hughes case. "I think he needs a criminal lawyer in a situation like this," Ackerman said. McGraw-Hill and LIFE both indicated they would hold off publication of the Hughes material indefinitely...
...investment in the project. LIFE has thus far paid $100,000 of a total of $250,000 the contract called for. Harold McGraw Jr., president of McGraw-Hill Book Co., says his firm has invested something less than $800,000, counting the $650,000 that went into the Helga Hughes account...