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By Ernest Mancinelli Ye getting to be a habit with 31-year-old Virginia Hill, hefress and girl friend of slain Mobster- Gambler Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, who turned up in Good ‘Samaritan Hospital: today—again with an overdose of sleeping tab- Police Chief Earl L. O’Clair’s newly-organized hoodlum detail reported that the thrice-married ding to Sheriff Cal Boles ‘apparently made an attempt end her life here—the fifth time she has suffered an overdose sleeping potions, ° of oo” To ‘Beat’ Gangiters~ e reportedly . told Sheritt Boles’ deputies ‘that ears were after her life” “ them toute’ ‘tended to “beat SS See Picture, Page 12 Tt was in Virginia's Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion last June 20 that Bugsy Stegel was shot to death by mobster bullets. Mirginia was in Paris at the Miss Hill arrived in Phoenix Virginia {Continued from Page 1) 4 Bugsy was murdered, ‘pack to the United States in August, Virginia went to her Beach, Fla,, man- sion where in a few days began the installation of lights and an elaborate yuard system a ewamen. On Aug. BGmitted’ to Miarsi Beach Hos- | is an helress. (But her brother, Charles Hill pital suffering another overdose of sleeping capsules on her Sist pirthday and lingered near death Ry as her condition was complicated oem with bronchial pueumonia. ‘Virginia Hill was born in Hol- land, the daughter of an Ameri- can mother and a half-Indian ther named Mack Hill, an Ala- ma horse and mule-trader. She spent ber early childhood Bessemer, Ala., where she of alne children, known as | wanted to marry her. bby” then. _ - Married at 14 At 14 she was married to ge Rogers and this was later ed with # substantial set- ement. This was the first of fen, Iowa football star, and still later fares qaiser, Mexican mba cer. ee ‘Virginia obtained her lune has always been a tery. She has told newsmen she ; in Miami Beach, when asked how Virginia got her money, said: | “An heiress? If she’s an heir~ | ess, it’s the first time I ever heard about it.” Whether Stegel and Virginia had planned marridge was never established. But Brother Charles, to whom Miss Hill's expenst cat in Phoenix is registered, on: losed that Siegel told him The Arizona Ties & Phoenix, Arizona Saturday, December 13, 1947 im the company of three men, who are being sought by police for questioning. They presum- ably came from Las Vegas, Nev., where the Siegel once was asso- fuah Flemie, Beratien of the ingo Club, built Phoenix money.. ively. Attempt Fails | Photographer Orcutt aboard wheelchair with a eamera con- ‘sled under a blanket, was Lavish Spender ginia one of Bolly- d's most lavish spenders. lavish parties at Stinset | , whether Siegel died in poverty | or had secreted & fortune de- riyed from his underworld oper- atlons. Finds Little of Value. Public Administfator Ben Hi. Brown disclosed that although there are persistent rumors of | huge estates in Nevada, New York and Cuba, he has been unable to uncover much of value in jlifornia. wn said that two safety feposit boxes had yielded a $20 gold plece, several gold nuggets, six Mexican gold coing, a watch, some rings and cuff {inks, a $2,000 insurance ond fp wiieled by whie-costed into Virgie . but at ES ares ot ent this week. nee Bhe entered the hospita ber own staff of private 4 and nurses, using the ce 8 five different errasione the victim of an overdo Sleeping pills. She flew to F that month and made tw rted attempts to “get m memories” at Nice Paris, both following new: (Tarn to VIRGINIA—Pay favor of Busty toother, Jennie Siegel of Brooklyn. Slegel's , Dr. Mi Siegel of Los Angeles, obt letters of administration y for personal proper California valued at ap mately $10,000. OO ot "C16 1947 LOS ANGci ~~ Finca OFFICE ROUTED TO Fives q a. RLAY Gf INVESIIG PARTMENT Or ad ON