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Show page 103 F i r s t National Bank brings to a close one phase of this peculiar case. Plank and Snell x*ere arrested some weeks e a r l i e r digging with shovels in the sand under a pier at Savannah Beach, where they told authorities they had hid the loot. Extensive digging with machinery in the beach area did not discover the money, however. "An unidentified blonde reportedly with Plank and Snell at the time of the robbery has not been identified or apprehended. The mystery of a t h i r d man remains, a l s o . It is suspected that the t h i r d man was John Bolin, c i v i l engineer, recently returned from Brazil. It has been assumed that Bolin was taken along a f t e r the robbery, as hostage, but during t r i a l Plank and Snell denied the presence of a third man, and claimed that the woman was a pickup and x^ras soon ditched, without the s l i g h t e s t knowledge of their crime. Bolin has not been located, to verify or deny his presence." There was a picture of Stetson Jack and Lippy, a l l from a Savannah paper of the time. Cora replaced the clipping and thought of the night long ago when she had run out on her two companions, when they finally admitted k i l l i n g Bolin. The engineer, t o t a l l y unknown to the police, had been invited in and offered a s p l i t , to take the money in a satchel in his car immediately after the robbery, as a diversionary t a c t i c , and to bury i t in a remote area u n t i l they could a l l get together. He had suggested a small island in the middle of a lake he had once worked a t. Cora remembered her f r u s t r a t i o n , her fear of being arrested, |