Word: redfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Reno's police radio one afternoon last week came a routine alarm: "Housebreak at Mt. Rose and Forest." Within minutes, the cops were pulling up at a massive, castlelike mansion owned by La Verne Redfield, 54, an obscure stock and real-estate operator who was locally known to be wealthy and somewhat eccentric. Events quickly proved that he was all of that and then some...
...Redfield led the police to a second-floor bedroom closet and announced that a 400-lb. safe was gone. In it, said Redfield, were $250,000 in cash, about $100,000 worth of jewelry and $2,000,000 in negotiable securities. Still in the closet was a battered suitcase that the thieves had missed. While the cops' eyes popped, Redfield opened it and riffled through another $1,000,000 worth of securities. "Guess it's all there," he said...
...Redfield's story is true, it was probably the biggest robbery of all time...
...Redfield turned out to be an Idaho native who made most of his money in Los Angeles oil stocks, moved in 1935 to Reno, where he lives parsimoniously except for frequent flings at roulette. He does his own shopping with a market basket, dresses in faded blue jeans and a lumberjack shirt...
Their encounter took place in Ciro's, an expensive Sunset Strip night-eyrie. Tone walked in with his wife and her maiden aunt, a Miss Fay Redfield of Cloquet, Minn. Barbara had just returned to town for three personal appearances, two in theaters and one before a federal grand jury which was interested in a dope-peddling murder (she had supplied the suspect's alibi). Franchot stepped to Florabel's table...