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Gi in « hurry, and get out of there,” Smiley told the jury. “Then she pat out the lights and told me that a doctor and He said he hag been sitting nearest the window, directly in the line of fire, and that one of the .30 caliber carbine shots had ripped through Bis sleeve? “] didn’t even netice M In all the excftement,” be sald, “antil ‘somebody pointed at my scat sleeve when I got to the Bev- erly Hills police station” _ He admitted that he wast asac- ciated with “Bugsy” as a stock- holder in the ganglord’s fabulous $5,000,000. Flamingo o in Las Vegas, but added “I don't of any t eogld have onused and I have mo could have fred “the | | shots.” ; 4. LOS ANGELES HERALD & DATED 6/esl/7 of what was behind it.” He locked at the body for a) few seconds and said laconically:' - “That's btm.” ‘ J BIG TOE TAGGED - . I The iy was unclad, save for Lé a sheet, a tag attached to the}; big toe of the right foot marked the. gangster’s epitaph. . It read: “June 71, ina, Homicide. @ Benjamin Siegel, 810 North | Linden drive.” “iP Later the coroner's aftice was notified by Groman’s ‘Mortuary, 830 West Washington boulevard, }that they had an order signed by Dr. Maurice Siegel, the slain tan's brother, to remove the body for funeral services and bu Armengements were being co: -haired Miss Mason, corrobo: ted Smiley's story before the jury which returned a verdict at the underworld czar’s death was caused by a cerebral hemot- rhage “as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted by a preson or persons unknown.” “T was upstairs with Mr. Hill pulling tacks out of « carpet because we were géing to move to Florida. Continuing her testimony, Miss Mason said “we heard flick “Then I heard Mr, Smiley H yell for us to call a doctor quick,” she said. “They're shooting through fhe windows,’ he was yelling. ‘Douse all the lights’.” In answer to Chief District At-l he said: 4 “There was a guest roo ere, and many guests ; “Did Mr. Stogel have a ke ito the door?” _. “I @en't know,” she replied. 2045 ‘1g Miss Mason ‘ftorney Wiliam E. Simpson “in testified that; telegram t Charles Hill from’ sister was received from FP n June 20, which read: “Arrived 0. K. Send ali of my things in care of Nicholas Realist, 4 Eue de Castiglione, | tOharies Hill also took the stand! briefly, relating the same story told by the others. After the inquest, District At- vited" Hill and Miss Mason tc his office, where they were interro- i at greater length. | District attorney's investiga. | tors revealed that Miss Mason, who once was personal hair- dreaser to Marie “The Body” Mc- Donald, was engaged to Hill and that they planned to marry gangster funeral, and keep the!: rvices private for the sake of|: Stegel's two daughters, Barbara, 14, and Millicent, 16, who arrived here from New York last Sur y. Meanwhile, it was reported from Las Vegas that Miss Hill, who had left for Paris a week before the slaying, be- came ill from an overdose of sleeping tablets when she vis- ited the Nevada resort town with the gang chief last month, | Physielan Jack Cherry. Siegel brought her te the dec-/ tor’s office on May 5 to have her stomach pumped out, Dr. “When I asked them whether Ht was an aceldent or a sul elde attempt, they would gtve ' nelther reason nor motive,” he sald. | RETUENED TO CASINO He added that Siegel waited until Miss Hill was revived six hours later and took her‘ back his ornate gambling ¢as