Starting in the 1930s, the story says, Holden "sluiced $2.8 million into a series of five-hundred- and thousand-year trusts—just one of which, allocated to the Unitarian Church, would be worth $2.5 quadrillion upon its maturation in the twenty-fifth century.

The four fled, but police were able to identify them because one of the four was wearing a Portsmouth athletic jersey with a number on it.