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he Says "71-Near-Old Chronic » dailbird Declares She Ran Dope - “I used to be a doperunner for Bugsy Slegel! ’ Hike to slip s strychnine tablet into the sleeping pills she’s al- ways taking!” A tiny, Tl-year-old woman, ad- mittedly a chronic thief for 29 years and now held in Lincoln’ Heights jail after she allegedly tried to pilfer a purse in a Holly- O apartment “house, blurted, jout those astonishing words early oday. She is Mrs, Elizabeth W. Worth- “That girl Virginia HIM! Ta the grocer make change fro sack beneath the counter waited until he walked a then I grabbed the bag money and hurried out. It more than $650 in it.” ington, “The Whistler's Grand- ] "whose police record It all seemed s0 easy, ery. “T’ve stolen more money Bitter in her denunciation of| then than I can keep track Virginia Hill, the slain Siegel’s| she said proudly. girl friend with a perennial sleep-| But she stoutly maintains ing pill, the little woman went on:|current arrest is a “bum “Virginia gave Bugsy = bad | When arrested on susp’ time, Bugsy wanted to break Jot robbery, detectives said, away from her and go with [chipper old woman had his wife and two daughters to |sewed into her dress—a live in Canada.” Police immediately began an in-| vestigation into Mrs. Worthing-|William Fox if they'd let her, mjton’s story of her associations! Questioned after Mr. and iwith Siegel. George H. Kirby, 1665 North Without a moment's hesitation,jamore avenue, reported Mrs. Worthington traced her/found the elderly woman »Scareer in crime. She said: Imaging through a purse, “It all started in Kansas City |Worthington retorted: during the flu epidemic after “I was answering questiqjia; the first World War. My | like this before you were borp.”}: brother had to go to the hospi- : CEPARTMENT Ar i & 1348 LOS ANGELES FleLy ol ROUTED TO BUKLAU GF Taves iToaTION: ‘atice "f AN