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oT t YIRGINIA H Angeles gunmen reported | n the way to liquidate her as’ they did her boy friend Benja- gain (Bugsie) Siegel, said in a ephone call ffem the Riviera: = “I have.read in the paper that two men have come heres to shoot me. They can come ahead. They'll find me here.” Miss Hill made the call last might to the Paris edition of the | ew York Herald Tribune fro (wie Hote! La Reserve at Beau eu. ~ _ ; She had disappeared fro Paris two weeks ago, going to a! beach hotel at Monte Carlo. It ‘was @ week ago today that the} ALos Angeles police announced | that two anti-Siegel operatives, had left for Paris to Kili Miss’ Hill for knowing and talking’ too much. : | The same day, according to Riviera police and the Villa AJ-! bert I Clinic, Miss Hill tried toj. iH herself by taking a:full vial): dof sleeping tablets. She was tak- no to the clinic. Released tw ays later, she weni to the Hote a Reserve and registered un er an assumed name, a ~reOor——e es LOS ANGELES TIMES, DATED 7/17/47 LET THEM COME)’ SAYS— OF KILLERS “En an interview at her hotel] ter Miss Hill said that she ac ideniailly took an ‘overdose o leeping pilis last week becaus he was “worried and nervous.” he added, however, that her | worrles weren't about the Los | Angeles gunmen said to be on |! her trail. . “l’m hiding from sorrow, fot killers,” she said..“There are no gangsters on my track, Ben wasn’t a gangster, either.” . Virginia said she was angry at Riviera police and officials at Villa Albert I Clinic for saying she tried te commit suicide by taking a full vial of sleeping : tablets. . “T was just worried and ner- vous, that’s all,” she said, “I took the tablets so 1 could sleep, I took too many, I guess.” S. Tip on Gangsters enied by Paris Police Chicego Fribune Presa Service r PARIS, July 16—Both Charles adin, underdirector of judiciary | police at the Prefecture, and N. | Bouriscot, chief of the national’ Surete police at the Ministry of | the Interior, today denied to the | Tribune that they had ever re-: jceived any warning message: from the Chief of Police of Bev-. erly Hills, Cal., about gangsters being en route to France to slay Virginia Hill. - : _ Frefecture oMfcials opined that . he Beverly Hills Police Chief annminoad ganretard urdre ening announced gangsters were going o Europe to kneck off | solery to take public interest o their own inability to’ arrest le #Pugsie Siegel’s slayers and foc ttention elsewhere, The American Embassy he sserted that it had received or shenifle te ee etornia police sheriffs orwa Prefecture. raed to he (Beverly Hills Police Chief C. H, Anderson Pad that his de- partment had sent an air mail letter “about a week ago” ta the Prefecture of Police in Paris about Virginia Hil. (“We wanted to know whether she was in Parts on business and if so on what kind of business,” l@e said. “As to the other thin the report that two gunmen ha one to Paris to kill Miss Hil) é have heard all kinds of r ors, but we don't know an [thing authentic." eee