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Show Oucliesne Girl Finds $1,160.00 Fmmi in Bmd Woman's Girdle Last week a 16-year-old girl discovered $1160 in cash, pinned in a murdered woman's girdle. LaRae Hill found this money while cleaning out a wooden trunk that belonged to Edna L. Opsahl, who was murdered in Duchesne, Aug. 20, 1949. Part of the contents of the trunk had been burned already, when LaRae became curious about the safety-pins in this girdle. She unpinned an opening open-ing in the girdle lining to find wrapped in a handkerchief, a bunch of currency enclosed in a bank money wrapper labeled $500. The money was taken at once to the sheriff's office and the count was 10, $100 bills; 3, $50 bills, and 3, $20 bills. The estate of Edna L. Opsahl was probated in this county and distributed to six heirs a brother and five sisters. The brother and two sisters reside in Kansas City, Mo.; one sister in San Francisco; one in Arkansas and one in Denver, Colo. The order for distribution of the estate es-tate to the heirs stipulates that any other asset not now known or discovered at a later date shall be distributed one-sixth to each of the heirs-at-law. , The trunk was unclaimed by the heirs and not sold as part of the estate assets. It had been stored in the county garage warehouse since Sept. 1949, until un-til this June, when R. W. Hill, custodian and county deputy sheriff, obtained permission from the county commissioners to move the chest to the courthouse court-house apartment and make use of it. The Hill family just started start-ed to clean out the trunk last week to use it for storage space for their possession. LaRae is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hill. Edna L. Ohsahl's husband, Hugo K. Opsahl, pleaded self-defense self-defense at the murder trial of his wife. He is now serving a term in the Utah State prison. James Hall, county attorney, who was 'asked to study the manner in which the money would be disposed of, reported that the estate of the dead woman wo-man would be re-opened and the money distributed by the administrator, which was Sheriff Sher-iff Arzy. Mitchell, to the legal heirs. |