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' "71-Year-Old Chronic -, Jailbird Declares She Ran Dope - “J ‘used to be a dope-runner for Bugsy Siegel! | “That girl Virginia Bi! Yd Uke to slip a strychnine tablet into the sleeping pills she's a!-. ways taking!” A tiny, Tl-year-old woman, ad- mittedly a chronie thief for 29 years and now held in Lincoln Heights jail after she allegedly] tried to pilfer a purse in a Holly- wood apartment ‘house, blurted fout those astonishing words early today. . the grocer make change as waited until he walked awMe then I grabbed the bag 3 She is Mrs, Elizabeth W. Worth- jington, “The Whistler's Grand- Jmother,” whose police record shows two penitentiary terms and] Whistler's numerous trips to jail for thiev-ltinued, “that I kept it up.” money and hurried out. It Bi more than $650 in it.” It all seemed s0 easy, Grandmother” “T’ve stolen more money sigght Be. Ty: ; }| Bitter in her denunciation of then than I can keep track ¢ Virginia Hill, the slain Siegel’s she said proudly. ; girl friend with a perennial sleep-/ But she stoutly maintains Atle ing pill, the lite woman went on:|current arrest is a “bum beef t “Virginia gave Bugsy a bad | When arrested on suspilog time, Bugsy wanted to break Jof robbery, detectives said, & away from her and go with [chipper old woman had $ pal his wife and two daughters to jsewed into her dress—a paenkt live In Canada.” ; deal of which she allegedlyief + Police immediately began an in-jfered Policemen C. E. Everett givestigation into Mrs. Worthing-/William Fox if they'd let hermgo. Me jton'’s story of her associations! Questioned after Mr. and #1 with Siegel. George’ H. Kirby, 1665 North ype Without a moment's hesitation,Jamore avenue, reported Mrs. Worthington traced herjfound the elderly woman career in crime. She said: maging through a purse, “It all started in Kansas City (Worthington retorted: : during the flu epidemic after “I was answering questid the first World War. My | like this before you were bo By: brother had to go te the hospi- | Her record—burglary termg —Herali-Express Fhote ae “ELIZABETH WORTHING- , TON Says She Was Dope Runner nt Tpospital Milagre’, ee {Kansas a For ‘Bugsy§iflegal - ne Gay in a market | eee ¥ . L, fee in - \ ae ec eae ee ° | LiVES (TGATION: Al BUREA : pyr TON C ang ALL -S.CEPARTHENT Ar i spike : WEREID 154 OT es _) or pat AN LS 1928