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By Ernest Mancinelif "es getting tc be a habit with 21-year-old Virginia Hill, hefress and girl friend of slain Mobster- Gambler Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, who turned up in Good Samaritan Hospital today—again bi an overdose of sleeping tab- Police Chief Earl L, O’Clair’s hewly-organized hoodlum detail reported that the thrice-married Miss Hill checked in last Nov. 4 et swank Paradise Inn. Virginia has kept her activi- ies here, as everywhere else ell-cloaked in secrecy, but ac- cording to Sheriff Cal Boles she apparently made an attempt to tL VII g lilid {Continued from Page v ' te dosuet Virginia went BG UBS, Tit gsee a, an her Miami Beach, mM sion where in a few days began fd the instatlation of lights and an newsmen. On Aug. 24 she was sdesittnad dn Miami Rasch Hoae BOTA MF odvkdtiaes seuss Save pital suffering another overdose a” of sleeping capsules on her Sist birthday and lingered near death as her condition was complicated with bronchial pneumonia. Virginia Hill was bern in Hol- fon Abe Bee wthine nf on mond SBM, VUE UALIBIILES Wa Ga sated! can mother and a half-Indian ther named Mack Hill, an Ala- ma horse and mule: trader. She spent her early childhood Bessemer, ., Where she e of nine * l~_E i. £1... Tappy Wiel. Sleep Pills Are G | fe an heirecs, dren, known as | wanted to marry her. end her life here—the fifth time she has suffered an overdose of sleeping potions. ' Out To ‘Beat’ Gangsters ~ She rannriadl::, 4-14 2 .28 Soe Peper -tuad one of Sheriff Boies’ deputies that “gangsters were after her Life’ and that she intended to “beat them to it.” : a See Picture, Page 12 It was in Virginia's palatial Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion Last June 20 that Bugsy Stegel was shot to death by mobster bullets. qiginia was in Paris at the me. —_ in the company of ‘three men, who are being sought by police ' for questioning. They presum- — ably came from Las Vegas, Nev., where the Siews] ones was asen, wevggwe WALLY Fe SO elated in the operation of lush Flamingo Club, built wi Phoenix money.. TIMES Staffers Harry Orcutt and T. L. Johns, in an effort to get a picture of Virginia, who bitterly dislikes newspa entered Good Samaritan Hospital jast night posing as a patient dan interne, respectively, Picture Attempt Fails. Photographer Orcutt aboard wheelchair with a samera con- Miss Hill arrived is Phoeenis Sealed und Pa am 4 ete a under a blanket, was t Married at 1400 |G, Eavish Spencer At 14 she wes married to | | eins et ih ait Pia | ge Rogers and this was later er lavish parties at Sunset | ulied with a substantial set- ement. This was the first of e marriages. teeter she erarried Ossie Grif- fen, Iowa football star, and still later Carlos Valdez, Mexican tango-rhumba dancer. ; ow Virginia obtained her fortune has always been @ mys tery. She has told newsmen she | But her brother, Charles Hill : in Miami Beach, when asked how Virginia got her money, said: | “An heiress? If she’s an heir , ess, it's the first time I ever | heard about it.” Whether Secs! and Virginia WHrwc. Vag eee had planned marriage was never established. But Brother Charles, to whom Miss Hill's expensive car in Phoenix is registered, once losed that Siegel told him a Tn The Arizona Tines| * Phoenix, Saturday, December 13, 1947 pe || Strip night spots and at Moorish Mansion where Bugsy got his, - often ran to $7,500 per throw. eon ae whe ede Haneda 60D GE Yea sur reas 1D pw. to have spent §70,600 in lube in Hollywood and Ne Ye eantinme in Los Angeles, here was speculation as fo whether Siegel died in poverty , or had une d= ee ee secretéa & ‘ rived from his underworld oper- ations. Finds Little of Value. Public Administtator Ben H. Brown disclosed that although there are persistent rumors of ‘ huge estates in Nevada, New ' York and Cuba, he hag been ' unable to uncover much of value in California. rown said that two safety eposit boxes had yielded a $20 gold plece, several gold nuggets, fFEDERAL ‘BUR eA — SURLAY OF INVE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JISTICE "C16 1947 . whebled by wh into Virginia's rpom, but st been moved: third ber own staff of private d and nurses, using the “Norma Hall.” - | _ Since last May & Virgir five different occasions has the victim of an overdo gieeping pills. She flew to ¥ Shat month and made tu rted attempts to “get im memories” at Nice Paris, both following new: (Turn te VIRGINIA—-Pay favor of Bugty’s mother, Jennie Siegel of Brocklyn. Stegel’s brother, Dr. M: Siegel of Los Angeles, ob! letters of administration y i id coin tch, | Gay for personal proper six Mee got cuff inks, and | California valued at ap a $2,000 insurance policy fh — mately $10,000. SHIRA LOS ANwoci oe Fiz: Le OFFIGE J - reales : el ROUTED TO 4 j Piece" &