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Bugsy Siegel — Part 23
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defies killers!
PARIS, July 18.-€m-Red
haired-Virginia Hil, who at-
New York Herald Tribune by tele-'
one that she was at the La Re-.
serve Hotel in Beaulieu, of the
French Riviera. .
|. “I read in the paper that two
men have coma over here to shoot
ime,” she said. “They can come
‘ghead—they'll find me here.”
‘Misa Hill felt differently not
L Police at Nice discl
‘yesterday that ashe awallowed «@
of sleeping tablets
hole tube
ago, and was saved o:
hen aervanta found her in a se-
ieee condition and rushed her to
private clinic.
Although the potice and hospital,
records listed the suicide attempt,
& special nurse who answered the
telephone when a call was placed
for Miss Hill today denied it.
“She did not try to commit suf-
cide,” the nurse said. “She is
merely sick from all those things
newspapers arg saying. You can
underatand that, I was called in
by the doctor to take care of her. ;
we. 12 ctanaentine maw and rannot he /
poeue i BLOC PN DOW gilts west. we
‘ disturbed.” 7 7
i Tt wag the second time that the
‘shapely glamour girl had taken an
overdose of sleeping tablets. Th
ther time came immedistely afteff,
e and Siegel guarreled fm
egas, Nev. where the. formeg:
ew York underworld characte
| t a multi-million dollar casing, ,
DATED 7/ié/}7
_ Miss Fill who usually seemed
have «# ly af
ree, inter left for France and
was soon afterwards that Siegel
n June 9—wade shot to death
in her home in Beverly. Hilla, Calif.
murder tnaalved,
Beverly His Chiet ©. 8.
Anderson, however, re that ;
‘gangland assassins ett for Francs
early this month to kill Virginia. {
‘Bhe had been dating a wealthy |
Frenchman and making al of the ;
Right clubs, put when ashe heard:
that someone had put the finger |
on her, she quietly checked out of |
her Paris hotel and fled. —
“Miss Hill had professed to be
Yoo Many Bleeping tablets, she 1
mer Monte Cario hotel. A awitchd |
board operator at the hotel La Ree
serve in nearby Beanlieu said she
checked in there under an as-
momed name, wr,
n her telephonic tnterview te-
YY, Miss Hill gaid:. -.
“I am not hiding. F am sick. Ali
on account of the awful things
people gay. Iam down here just
trying to get well” :
_. She again complained of news .
Stories about Siegel. :
, “He was one of the finest men
‘I ever met, and he. had the great-
est respect for me,” ahe said,
Referring to Siegel's death
er house, she } said: “Wh
ouldn't he have a key? What’
ng with that? 1t was a bi
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