Formal indictment. With a New York detective (right) formally presenting the indictment charges, author Clifford Irving, his wife, Edith, and researcher Richard Suskind (centre between Irving and wife) are officially booked 9 March at the fifth precinct station house on charges ranging from mail fraud to forgery in connection with the now officially discredited 'autobiography'of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. A federal grand jury also handed down 9 March indictment on similar charges against the Irving's, but named Suskind only as a co-conspirator. 9 March 1972