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Bugsy Siegel — Part 23
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LOS ANGELES EXAMINER
DATED 7/1 7/¥ 7
fs
Death Try
irginia Hi
Over'Bugs
ill Denies
Frank admission that she deeply loved gangster Bugsy
iegel came yesterday from
ance.
But the thrice-married, ‘bultry-
ed Virginia denied she had,
ed to end her life with sleep-;
g tablets at Monte Carlo.
Wire dispatches from the Ri-
jera said that Virginia explained
hospitalization . in Monaco!
ospital in a statement released!
rough an English-speaking’
rse,
OVED SIEGEL——
“While in Paris I had a
rvous breakdown because ¥
ved Mr. Siegel so much,” she
‘as quoted as saying.
“I decided to go to the Ri-
; Wiera because there were too
y distractions in Paris.”
(Bugsy was slain in Miss Hill’s
verly Hills mansion as he sat
ing a newspaper on June 20),
“I arrived at the Monte
|, mysterious Airginia Hill in
| Carlo Seach Hotel,” Virginia
sald, “and there I received re-
ports that two men had ‘come
to France to shoot me.
“‘{ had another and worse
breakdown and was rushed to
the hospital.” /
The nurse deseribed . Virginia
as being “depressed” and said
she spends hours “without talk-
ing.”
“But, she does not fear
gangsters who reportedly ar
trailing her,” the nutse de.
clared. “She has not asked th:
French police for protection.”
Monte Carlo police records, it
lwas disclosed, show no. entry of
ja suicide attempt.
Records at the hospital, how-
ever, revealed that Miss Hill was
treated there for “intoxicating
.Jeffects” of an overdose of a sleep-
ing drug.
HYSTERICAL
The record said she was not
in a comatose state when admit-
ited, but was hysterical.
Virginia tried to kill herself in,
Tae Vegas before Siegel’s mur-
der. The attempt followed a bit-
iter quarel with Bugsy,. who
rushed her to the hospital.’:
Hospital attendants said th
‘Bugsy learned from Virginia’
lown lips at that time that he w:
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