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ALL INFOR* By GENE McLAIN POLICE said they foundVi 25-year-old heiress sweet. t of the slain gang leader, njamnin (Bugsy) Siegel, recover. in Good Samaritan’ Hospi ly yesterday from an overd sleeping powder. She was located by the newline allies Hil. ited police hoodlum detail, “We g on # tip that November 24 she! hecked into exclusive Paradise in, northeast of Phoenix, closely; ollowed by three men the officers scribed as “typical boods.” A search for the trio was under fray last night. . | THE WOMAN refused to admit r identity, but Earl O'Clair, ice chief, said it had been con- Ugmed by photographs, e pretty brunette—in who: jatial Beverly Hills, Calif. hoi gel was shot to death, ganglan: yle, last June 20—was foul conscious on a floor in the rank resort Wednesday after- oon and was taken to the hos- Sital, police sald. She was ad- pitted under another name. , She was reported recovering, lut extremely nervous yesterday. She refused to admit her identity| pb newspapermen, but # check dis- josed her expensive automobile the inn was registered to] aries E. Hilj of Miami Beach, of the dead gang- sweetheart. Sheriff Cal Boies said Miss Hill itted her identity to one of his eputies in a hospital conference ind insisted she came to Phoenix Scompanied only by “a girl fend.” UNDER THE influence of th ative, she reportedly said thi ingsters” were after her li that she intended to “be m to it.” She also admitted her jfConuine On Page 4, Col. 1) ATION C ™s c |Siegel’s Girl Found Her paceentinued From Page One} tity, police sald they 1 |and told br the alain Siegel | But not only at the hospital, but alao at the inn, she was registered oder a different name, ~ Chief O'Clalr said hunt for the three men will be pressed and that this was the reason for loca! a know there’s an increasing fnflux of gangsters here and we want to know who they are and what they intend to do,” O’Clair| aaid. “We want to run them out,; if possible.” He said he believes the men are ed to her Chicage home Miss Hill took the aleeping powders, After her recovery from the sedative, Miss Hill deposited $1,200 dn the hospital safe. Meanwhile, whether the swag- iz Slegel secreted a fortune ived from his underworld oper- ions or died in comparative a was a question worrying Ben . Brown, Log les public adt ministrator, a to the As- sociated Press. Although persistent rumors haye given Siegel huge estates in Né- wage, New York and Cuba, Brown enid, little of value has been un- covered in California. bodyguards, rather than “guns"| Seeking the life of Mis Hill. i a] gangland rumors have sald Miss Hill would be slain. ‘ Slegel, reputed to be the lord ot horse race bookmaking opera- tions in Arizona, California and Nevada, was shot as he sat on a couch in the Moorish;style ‘sion while Miss Hill was in Fran Pointive for the slaying never ‘was established but Fred N. How- z,8er, California attorney general, said he was convinced it resulted] from an underworld battle over bookie wire services. Siegel sup- osedly was attempting to set up is own service. He had been the owmer of thi luxurious Flamingo Club in Lai fegas, Nev., and was reputed ave underworld connections alo! e Pacific cepsh—— mame ARIZONA PEFUBLIC December 13, 1947 ‘wb . Thursday for personal property ;She since reportedt, attempted | California, valued at ‘galeide twice with sleeping pow- | ky $10,000. FOR AML eee TWO SAFETY deposit boxes yielded » $20 gold piece, several Bold nuggets, six Mexican gold - POLICE recalled, however, that: coins, @ watch, some rings and cufflinks and a $2,000 insurance icy in favor of Siegel’s mother, jennie ie Siegel of Brooklyn, Brown e demi gang chief's brothe: ir, Maurice Siegel of Los Angel: letters of administratio: approximati g dora (° . "C 1¢ 1947 ~