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ARETE MS setae I “Tells of New Car and Sister's Plans Virginia Hill, Alabama heiress, ant enjamin (Bugsie) Siegel were “romantically inclined,” but the romance went awry be- fore the gangster was slain last week in the heiress’ Beverly Hills mansion. : b This was siscloxed yesterday y Charles Hill, 21, brother of Miss Cw en he was ques-! tioned in the District Attorney's office by Chief-Dep. S. Ernest Roll and Chief Investigator H. Leo Stanley. The youth, with Miss Hill's Secretary, Jerri Mason, and 4) Smiley, Hollywood sports figure ; Snd-driend of Siegel, was in the " Moorish residence at 810 N, Lin- den Drive at the. time of the} ‘playing. Romance Disclosed He said that his sister, now in Paris, and Siegel had been ro- -mantically inclined and that when Miss Hill lay unconscious in a Las Vegas hospital after taking ‘sleeping tablets in Sie- gel's Flamingo Club, Siegel told him that he wanted to marry Virginia, according to Roll. . “And I am sure my sister was also in love with him,” he was Quoted by Roll as saying. d ; But the romance faded, Hill said his sister and Siegel had concluded that both were “too nervous” to get along and had / agreed to split up. She had ; Planned some time before to gO to Paris. At first Siegel was against the trip but, after the : agreement to part, advised her to | go ahead, In their “split-up” {| ————__ ‘there was no violence, . the {brother said Ti photo QUESTIONED—District Attorney's office yesterday turned to Mrs. Esther Siegel, the divorced wife of the slain Bugsie Siegel, for help in cracking the gongland mystery, |= She was questioned for an hour by the investigators. | aT HS. DERAETwcum INVESTIGATION, OGT.17 1947 G4. 2837 -F 7 OS ANGELES FIELD OFFICE: