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eee i $ LOS ANGELES TIMES DATED ZLy/y7 ISIEGEL'S DEPOSIT BOX. IELDS NO MURDER CLU Benjamin (Bugsie) Siegel's safety deposit box yesterday fafled to yield any clues to the late gangster’s murder June 20 but Atty. Gen, Howser said he now believes “either the director or the actual perpetrator” of the shooting was a western man. |. The safety deposit box, held Jointly by the slain gambler and ‘Beth Siegel of New York, de scribed as his sister, contained only bits of “not particularly val- juable” “personal jewelry ‘and a [email insurance policy of which ‘Siegel's mother was beneficiary; Howser disclosed after searching the box personally. « Regarding Siegel’s slaying, the Attorney General said: “1 believe that we have isolat- ed a clear motive for the murder. Ve believe that either the diree lor or the actual perpetrator of @ murder was a western man, } ‘ather than an eastern gunman,” Located in a Security-First Ni- tional Bank ‘branch ‘at 469 N. ‘Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, by special agents of the Attorney General after weeks of search, the safety deposit box was ex: amined under a’ special order is- sued by Superior Judge New- comb Condee upon Howeser's pe- tition. The Attorney General ex: pressed disappointment with the| contents of the box, comment'| ing that “there was absolutel: nothing of any significance” con- tained in it, After the contents were ‘listed, the box was spaled and Placed -back im ‘the vault. . Siegel was shot to death as he sat reading in the home of a friend, Miss Virginia Hill, for- mer dancer, at 810 N. Linden Drive, Beverly Hills. His kille fired through a window of th! mansion at almost point - bla range, with'an Army-type rifig,