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Mrs. LOS ANGELES HERALD & EXPRESS paTED 627/447 Siegel Tells of I ‘0 r ancd rails of Slain Ex-Hdsband—! They were bashful, giggling sweethearts in school 0a, the east side of New York . - ‘The boy left school and bought? a garage, continuing a timid court- ship of the girl he loved... Then they got married. ‘That was 20 years ago. Today the boy—Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, the rubbed-out gangland ezat—was in his grave, dead from underworld bullets, and the tear- stained girl tremulously told the; authorities of her life with, “Bugsy.” Auburn-haired Mrs. Esther Sie- el, 38,\who divorced the. sla! jangster last August, submitt oluntarily to questioning by Di: ict Attorney William E. Simpso: in a private conference at Sim; son’s offices here. MYSTERIES UNSOLVED .. But Mrs, Siegel's answers dashed Simpson's hopes to pene- trate through shadowy mysteries: cloaking “Bugsy’s” past life and associates. gangland pursuits and intrigues.: “Bugsy,” she told District At- torney Simpson, was “a good busband, s good father te our _ two daughters, and « splendid. “I never heard of a single i who didn’t love him,” she; alty exclaimed. “Ev. the divorce we remaine the best of terms, In. fi I talked to him over the phone’; the day he was killed. We dis. | cussed a trip our daughters’ were making to Los Angeles ! Mrs. Siegel said she never had heard of Virginia Hil, wealthy, heiress in whose Beverly Hills: home Siegel wag killed, before: she read accounts of the murdex in the newspapers. ' Shown two gold keys found tw! Siegel's possession after* the, shooting, Mrs. Sleget exclaimed, | “I gave one of them—the blank one—to him on his birth. day. Pve never seen the other Jone.” (The other key to which she referred opened the door to Miss Hill’ ton.) Shortly before the confer f got underway, Simpson issued statement in which he said: “T have today Chief. Investigator Leo Stanley to a& sign one of his men to go to'a’ number of large castern cities: to obtsin aH information ‘cow. cerning the associates and ac. tivides of Benjamin 'Stegel. :..%; “Instantly Stanley will sr range for the establishment of dnd Life with "B ails to Shed Light}on Dark 3 st sete “Acting on instructions of At}