Word: subcellars
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...murders of Edward Albert Ridley and his secretary Lee Weinstein in their gloomy subcellar office in Manhattan's Allen Street (TIME, May 22): the arrest of one Arthur J. Hoffman and one George Goodman, accountants, for grand larceny. Working on one of many baffling angles, some of the 65 detectives assigned to the case discovered that Lee Weinstein, who succeeded a previously murdered secretary of Old Man Ridley, had used Accountants Hoffman & Goodman to witness a fake will which the half-blind. 88-year-old eccentric millionaire had been tricked into signing. The will, modeled after that...
...what had once been the basement blacksmith shop of the stables of his father's large drygoods store. Before 1901, when the firm sold out, E. A. Ridley & Sons had done $6,000,000 worth of business a year. Down another flight of stairs to a dank subcellar aged Mr. Ridley would go. The air smelled like cool glue. Here, where once had been a well whence Mr. Ridley provided his tenements with cheap water of questionable purity, the strange, 88-year-old man had partitioned off a cheerless office. There were two iron safes, a high counting desk...
...clerk, had tried to get him on a telephone in the upstairs garage, where the stables used to be. Not until after one o'clock did the garage proprietor bother to go down to where the strange pair worked at their accounts. At the bottom of the subcellar stairs, visible by the light of one yellow bulb glowing dismally in the office, the garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone, his head had been bashed many times with the swivel stool. In the ghostly underground quiet...
...drilled. His templates opened one safe, failed on the other until he had flown to Calais and drawn another. His employers told him to come back in August when there would be more locks to pick. Then Locksmith Courtney had another adventure. From Bremen he was taken to a subcellar of the late Prince Heinrich's palace in Kiel, shown a safe untouched since 1918. Breathing ancestral Hohenzollern mustiness, lit by flashlights, he twiddled until he heard the tumblers fall on the lock, telling him the safe was ready to be opened. Professionally satisfied, he determined to have locksmith...
...lather, was working on the new Equitable Trust Building, partly Morgan-owned. A plasterer sent Fieri to the 16th floor for materials. Fieri opened a door, stepped out into an air intake shaft over the J. P. Morgan & Co. building next door, dropped 165 ft. into a subcellar. Permanently paralyzed with a broken neck, he was carried into court on a stretcher to sue for $250,000. Last week a Manhattan jury allowed him $110,000 for his injuries against the Morgan Company and three other concerns...