Business: Harriman Plot

Alan Harriman, only son of Joseph Wright Harriman, was killed in an automobile crash in 1928. For his burial, the elder Harriman bought a plot of 2,531 sq. ft. in a cemetery at Locust Valley, N. Y. for $8,246. Five years later, escaping from a Manhattan sanatorium where he was held pending trial for the Harriman National Bank failure, Joseph W. Harriman spent a night and a day at his son’s grave, later tried weakly to kill himself when discovered at a nearby inn (TIME, May 29, 1933).

To pay off creditors of Joseph W. Harriman, who is now in a Federal penitentiary for misapplication of his bank’s funds, William R. Willcox, trustee in bankruptcy for the personal Harriman properties, last week asked a court’s permission to disinter the body of Alan Harriman, auction off the cemetery plot. Permission was refused.