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sper tn nie mene ea co wAkS whiwd Blew! DOD 2-/7-~yy Bugsy was : no gangster, says Virginia France, July 17.-00%-Sul- FIM, sloe-eyed, fast- { talking girl friend of gangland's J Mately departed Benjefnin (Bugsy) {- Siegel, wala today that she sccl- dentally took an overdcse of sleep- | fing pills inst week because she Swaa “worried and nervous,” Virginis, chatting gaily and sipping cognac at the edge of a swimming pool et plush Hotel La Reserve et nearby Beaulleu, gail however, that her worries weren' bout the Los Angeles said to be on her trail, “Tm hiding from sorrow, not Killers,” she said. “There are no Bangstera on my track, Ben wasn't a gangster, elther.” ‘Virginia didn't appear ead. She laughed gaily, tossing her long auburn hair in the soft Riviera breeze throughout an hour-lang dnterview, Virginta said she was angry at Riviera police and officials at. Villa Albert I clinic for saying ahe tried to commit suicide by faking a full vial of sleeping tab- « “I was just worried and nervous, that’s all.” she said. “I took the tablets P I could steep. I took too tmany, I guéss,” Virginia gaid Bugsy had hoped’ to come to Buropa with her, but that “he was too busy.” If ber sorrow was caused by Siegel's erasure in Los Angeles, she didn’t a show it, She was sun-tanned and t apparently in good health. “Two .’ enermous gold bracelets and a =: heavy atring of pearis set off a $ white suit” with a pay bly % 2 Dlouse, .- - z “Ail X want tp to bo tet al ith my ~sorrows. What I ost 1s solitude,” she sald, ing her glass. Sige ee ne ee