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...cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with $6,225. Buried under plaster, junk, and old furniture in the cellar they found a score of packets containing uncashed checks and bonds worth $7,417. Finally under a pile of ashes, wrapped in newspapers, they happened on a safe-deposit box. In it were 79 passbooks and three mortgages, altogether worth $513,000. Spinster Herle's relatives continued to dismantle her home inch by inch...
...swart Gangster Jack Zuta told suspicious Chicago police nothing enlightening about the Lingle murder (TIME, June 23, et seq.). But Jack Zuta dead on a Wisconsin dance floor (TIME, Aug. 11) became an eloquent police informant on many subjects. He left careful records of his business transactions in numerous safe-deposit boxes at various banks. Four of these boxes were unearthed during the past fortnight by Special (Lingle-case) Investigator Pat Roche of the State Attorney's office. Puzzled were police and investigators at finding little Zuta money other than the $1,900 in his pockets when...
...Willoughby Burrell, daughter of a mathematics professor at Trinity College. Dublin. Mrs. Burrell had herself intended to write a Wagner biography, accumulated a vast amount of invaluable literature to that end. But for the 30-odd years since her death it has lain neglected in a safe-deposit vault, some of the papers found only recently in an old clothes hamper. It is with the support of this important collection that Authors Hum and Root have undertaken to deface Wagner's self-portrait, creating in its stead one of a mean, unscrupulous, supremely arrogant person; one which comes...
...that the U. S. bankers interested, since they were not floating the loan but only giving it port facilities, had not asked the State Department to announce its attitude. The objection was impressive, since it put the State Department in the role of a defender of citizens' safe-deposit boxes. The objection was effective. The Chase National notified the State Department that it would "gladly refrain" from carrying out its Soviet depositor's instructions...
...secure them had been difficult because Lord Talbot had viewed the old let ters as a peculiarly private account of his great-great-grandfather's charms and indiscretions rather than as an important literary discovery. Successful where other collectors had failed, Colonel Isham took the suitcase to the safe-deposit vaults of the Guaranty Trust Co. where, in an ivory twilight that smelled of oil and steel, he showed all his treasure to hungry newsgatherers...