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Late on the night of April 12, Donald Nash made a phone call. He rang the unlisted number of the Manhattan office of attorney Henry Oestericher. The office was closed by then, but an answering machine logged the call. It was urgent that Nash speak to Oestericher. He would contact him again in the morning.

Late that night, though, Oestericher did receive a call, at his home. The caller was Forty-seventh Street jewelry manufacturer Irwin Margolies, and he was calling from his home in Westchester County.

“Henry,” Margolies said, “did you hear the news?”

“I heard,” Oestericher said.

“Oy vey,” Margolies said and hung up.